Considering everything that has taken
naturally expect to meet with a feeling of place up North these two years, one would bitter resentment on the part of the Chinese. As a fact, however, both the offcials and the people are as friendly as ever. The general impression seems to be that the Boxer movement was a huge mistake, of which the less said the better. national feeling of the average Chinese in the interior is not developed enough to ive him any appreciable sense of shame or indignation over the recent misfortunes of the Empire. In fact, they speak of their own Emperor's flight with less feeling than would a Westerner speak of President Kriiger's.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.