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Corea on the one hand, and between Man-he said. Bismarck replied Your loftichuria and China on the other, are absoness, too, has had great successes." But lutely fixed by nature as well as by military Li deprecated them with: "Not nearly records, The Han dynasty 2,000 years so great as yours." "Well," responded ago and the Sui T'ang suede: mn. of dynas-Bismarck, we all try to do our duty." ties 1,200 years ayo, followed exactly th Liis much crippled. He stood as long he could, and when he was about to-so same land and water routes—in the reverse direction—which the Japanese. fol. it jue Bismarck invited him to sit, lowed in 1894.
At the time when the Then the two old men fell to discussing Japanese consented to treat for peace, in their ailments. the spring of 1895, their position was "T sleep badly," said the Prussian, in almost precisely that of the manchu chief-response to the Chinese statesman's eager tain Taitsung in 1644: that is, they had enquiries. the Chinese Empire within their grasp if "I, too, suffer great pain," said Li. they had only possessed the daring to seize it; but time was allowed to russia to am, Bat T have no pain," retorted Bis- gather allies and forees, and the once hurts me," and he invited Bismarck's £0" ever. Taitsung died just as his efforts "Te is in my face," continued Li, "Tt Diilliant apy arent has now passed away attention to his homely face, which is still further twisted by neuralgia. At luncheon they talked politics. With several German reporters present, and taking stenographic notes, Li talked recklessly for a man who has a yellow jacket to los "The purpose of my remarked, is to ask your serenity's advice.
What advice?" asked Bismarck.
How can we best reform China?"
"T cannot judge from here."
"How can I act successfully against the Court in Peking "One cannot act against a Court. No Minister can resist the will of the Ruler. He only executes it or gives advice."
"But how can the Ruler's will be carried out?"
"Only on the basis of the army. It may be quite small, not more than 50,000 perhaps, but it must be good."
"We have men," replied. the former Viceroy, but training is wanted. Nothing has been done in this direction.
For thirty years I hat striven in vain against this lethargy. have now seen the finest army in the world—that in Germany. Though I shall no longer be able to expend means of my own, which were at my disposal as Viceroy, I shall do what T can to act up to your serenity's advice, We must reorganise, and we must do it with the help of Prussian officers and on the Prussian model."
"The army," remarked the Prince, "need not be distributed all over the country. It is only necessary to have it at one's disposal at any moment and to throw the force quickly and easily from one point to another."—Japan Mail.
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glands. a the introduction of the tment to the warm water to open the ores to facilitate had resulted in the founding of an imperial dynasty. But his brother Torkun, the Yamagata of the time, taking glance the portance of the situa. tion, at once mat ched upon Peking. The last Chinese Emperor of the Ming dynasty had just committed suicide; Chinese rebels, in arms against the all-prevailing venality had seized and plundered Peking.
China's "only general," in desperation, had gone north to secure Manchu assistance, and " decisive battle of 1645 was cage at Shanhaikuan in the summer:
atween the Manchus and General Wu San-kuei's Chinese troops on the one hand, and 500,000 Chinese rebel riff-raff under Li Tsze-ch'éng on the other, Doubtless the Japanese, who are well-read in Chinese literature, must have perfectly understood that when they had reached the city of Kinchou they' were exactly in the position of Tait tsung and Torku At all events, the Chinese understood i and knowing well that the Shanhaikuan or Pass was the true and only north-eastern key to China, their desperate offers to con. clude peace with Japan date from this moment.
Count Ito, in his negotiations with Li Hung-chang, tried his very utmost to induce that wary statesman to consent to 4 Japanese occupation of Shanhaikuan, Taku, Moukden, and Tientsin as a security for the carrying of such a treaty as might be concluded. Of course, as this would have ally pliced the hand of Japan upon absolutely refused to listen to it, and meanwhile "his attempt ed assassination by the madman Koyama Rokunosuki secured him both breathing time, and, what was more important, the sympathies of the civilised world. "The bullet received by poor old Li Hung-chang in his humiliated face was worth at least £20,000,000 and a good province to China.
Torkun, uncle of the first Emperor of the now reigning Manchu dynasty, pushed on after his anhui victory straight to Peking. The sagacious clemency of the Manchu chieftains contrasts strikingly with the blundering conduct of the Japanese, who, both in physical appearance and mental vigour, are men of. a different calibre. The Chinese Empire then was in exactly the same rotten condition that it is now, the grand old Manchu element having soon been absorbed. Every China. man was willing to sell himself to" the highest bidder or the most powerful com queror; and accord ly Torkun, with the aid of Chinese rene, and Chrinese armies, soon completed the conquest of the whole
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