The eyes of the United States are like
upon China. There is perplexity, inability other clvilieed nations now turn to understand, a feeling that No one can know or predict what the next event will be, to whom directed, where or when executed. The game of nations now playing in the Orient is yet hidden nor can one make certain who is likely to move his pieces next, whether any or all are playing for stakes or for amusement, what any plan of attack is, nor with whom rests advantage of position or men.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.