Day by day, almost, fresh aspects of the interests of the empire open up tending to show that those who have from time to time protested against particular developments of our forward policy have been confounded by the flow of events. It was yesterday, I think, that Lord Dufferin made a speech atthe annual Burma dinner in which he pointed out how fortunate it is, in view of what Germany and Russia have been doing in Eastern China, that we can stand now and keep watch on China from our ground of vantage in Upper Burma. Lord Dufferin knows what he is talking about, for he had agood deal to do with our enterprise in Burma. Verykeen is my own recollection of the warnings of the pessimist. prophets against our taking up that footing in burma.
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