Naturally the question is being asked once again, whether Lord Rosebery was right or wrong in refusing to join in the steps taken by the other Powers in putting check upon the victorious Japanese and "saving" China. From the London point of view it seems a poor saving. But Chinese statesmanship has its own point of view. The Government at Peking does not appear to have been taken much by surprise by the cynical way in which Russia, having made herself the patron and prorector of China against Japan, has set to work to reap for herself the profits of Japanese victory. I suppose Eastern statesmen of the stamp of Li Hung-chang glorious parts of the Highlands, sets apart saw a good deal more from behind the scenes at the beginning than we did and in the cycle. Bicycles are almost as import-counting the cost they probably arrived ant tenants of the steamboats as are the at the conclusion that Russian forms and passengers, and with one of these boats to details of domination would be much less carry cycle and cyclist from landing stage irksome and humiliating to them than to landing stage the tourist in. wheel Japanese. Anyhow Li Hung-chang and saddle may do pretty nearly the whole Rassian diplomacy and _statesmanship run of the Highlands and lochs of Scot-have a good deal overmatched the land practically independent of everything Foreign Office in Downing-street. Some except the Scotch hotels, perched on many of us would like to be in a position to of the most beautiful spots in the world. perceive what Lord Palmerston would have done in this terrible time of stress and
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