THE storm has not entirely passed away with the signature of the Peace Protocol, and there are still rumblings and mutterings in the distance. It must be so, A job half-done is sure to want doing again. The Foreign Ministers at Peking have done their best, but they have had to patch up peace without removing the causes of the war, or getting adequate guarantees against its recw~ rence. The fires have been smothered for a time but not extinguished. Presuming that the news received by our German contemporary from Tsingtao is correct, there is a menacing little outbreak of fire in 364|Shantung, which has hitherto been pnt forward very plausible arguments with this demand. He can aver that, to use the modern terse and telling expression, he has "played the game" during the last fifteen months of storm and str In Shantung, the cradle of Boxerdom, -he has_ strictly repressed all attempts at anti-foreign outrage. He did his best, while the siege of the Legations was going on, to keep us informed of what was happening at Peking, sending forward freely and unreservedly all the news his messengers could collect. Without reservation he adhered firmly to the Yangtze Compact. He kept his troops so well in hand, that it was they who were sent for, with the consent of the Foreign Ministers, to keep order in Peking when the did fis est to protect the foreign foreign garrison was withdrawn. He
missionaries, bringing them back to their stations as soon as their return
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