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Show WONDERFUL CHANGES COMING Will Japan again attack Russia? Will China be drilled and armed by Japanese? Will the Oriental drive tho whltcman from Asia? General Kuro-patkln, Kuro-patkln, Russia's "great general, says Russia should prepare) to meet a combined com-bined attack from the Orientals, which means that he anticipates serious times fqr his countrymen at some future fu-ture time. A setles cf articles from General Kuropatkln are appearing in Mc-Clure's, Mc-Clure's, the last article dealing with tho future, In which Kuropatkln says: "We may be permitted to hope for tho possibility of arriving at such an understanding with the European pow-erh pow-erh that Russia will be given an opportunity op-portunity in the case of a fresh attack on us in the far east, to use all her armed forces in a light with Japan or with Japan and China. Japan, notwithstanding not-withstanding the fact that the issue of the war was favorable to her, Is feverishly fev-erishly augmenting her forces. China, under the guidance of Japanese officers, offi-cers, is forming a large army on the Japanese model. In a very short time ; Japan and China will be In a position to throw into Manchuria an army of more than 1,300,000 armed men. These forces, If direoted against Russia, may set themselves the 4ask of wresting from her a considerable part of Siberia Si-beria and reducing her to the rank of a second-class power. The danger lhat threatens Russia from the tar casl has now become so obvious that 1 classes 3f the Russian population ought to prepare themselves, with the full consciousness of what they are doing, 1 to rise up as one man In , defense de-fense of the Integrity and greatness of their native land In case of a new attack upon Russia, on the part of Japan Ja-pan or China." When the special ambassador from Japan passed through Ogden a short time ago, he had with him many young Chlneso who had discarded the t,ueue The ambassador spoke English Eng-lish fluently and discussed the possibility possi-bility of railroad extensions in China, declaring that his country Was on the eve of an awakening which would not only bring railroads but all the advancement ad-vancement of modern civilization. Now if the Chinese are casting off the superstitions su-perstitions which have bound them to the dead past and if the touch 'of the outside world has met with a response re-sponse from among the men high up in the councils of the nation, it will be but a short time when China will be another .lapan, only Immeasurably greater and stronger. When that transformation comes, If ' China decides de-cides to join forces with. Japan, Russia's Rus-sia's resistance will be futile. The whiteman will be swept from the Siberian Si-berian plains by an overwhelming force and Asia once more will be purely Asiatic. v When China, tho slumbering giant, awakens then, for the first time shall it be really necessary and essentially proper for the United States to lorti-fy lorti-fy against invasion. Russia will be not less concerned than we In the curbing curb-ing of the aspirations of the Chinese. |