During the past three years the Japanese have been at such pains to survey the roads and familiarize themselves with places on this promontory that the affair at Kinochou probably caused greater consternation and excitement at Tokio than anywhere else, Peking excepted. It is the opinion of not a few that Japan had her eve upon this province, intending to make it her own when the inevitable break-up came, and it may be she deserves it as much as any other nation, and the people would probably do as well under her rule as under that of most Western Powers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.