Mr. David Glass, Q. of the Canadian Bar, is at present issiting the Far East. Ho was kind enough to receive a representative of the "'North-China Daily News" at the Club, where he is staying for a few days, and wave him the following interesting sketch, from materials gathered during his I came from Vancouver in the s, s. Empress of Japim to Yokohama, and from Yokohama to Shanghai by the Empress of Chins. Daring April and May I went over Japan fairly well, when my good opinion of that country was fully conitm-'They are a united people and have a high destiny. The Chinese, on the contrary, are not united and, from what I can gather, are wholly wanting in patriotism. Phe formation of their governing power forces government by sections, while the language differs largely in different sections, whereby the homogeneous character of the people is greatly weakened, reducing their harmony, happiness, and strength, When Jirst T came to Shanghai the bright, beautiful surroundings greatly enhanced my good opinion of China. Sven after, I embarked on the s.s. Lienshing for Tientsin, about seven hundred miles to the North. It is estimated that Tientsin has 4 population of about, 700,000 inhabitants, While there, the "Boxer" rising took place; the tumult and excitement was quite " bewildering. The streets were jammed with Chinese soldiers and the blue-jackets of other nations, the latter endeavouring to reach Peking, to which ylaco they had been ordered to protect their respective legations, I was anxious to get forward to Peking to see the en pital, the old wall and other places round there Mr. Deew, of Tientsin, to whom T had letters, was' very kind in showing me about the great city, but he advised me that it would be next to impossible to reach Peking, as the railway line had been torn up xnd'some bridges burned. I was informed that the Japanese were the first soldiers to enter Peking; next came. the Americans and British; then the Russians, French and Italians. ' The Germans did not enter till the day following, The Empress Dowager resisted the passage of a soldiery into her capital, but this was of no avail. A nation, unable to keep its treaty obligations by the preservation of the lives and property, net only of its own people, but ofall within the realm, must stand aside and allow these rights to be protected by others. That was the pivotal point upon which the fate of China turned. The gates of Peking were entered by the representatives of the Great Powers. The few who entered these gates represented a larger population than that of China, But, more than that, they repro-sented the power, progress, and the humane ethics of the world.
The railway station and ground at Ticntsin were crowded by Chinese infantry and cavalry, in all about 3,000, in the railway cars and out of them, going, as they. said, to pat down the Boxer Rebellion; but a andre lawless, undisciplined lot. could not he found. Their conduct, to Europeans, women and men, was simply disgusting.
Apropos ofthe Boxer rising, several have said tome that the British had not acted with sufficient vigour in China, and that it was very doubtful as to their intention of retaining, Weihaiwei harbour. I am quite sure the latter statement is wholly and absolutely without foundation. On the contrary, on the 9th of June, 1899, when Mr, Walton AMLP., raised the question in the House of Commons, Mr. Brodrick, on behalf of the Gorernment, gave it a positive denial and stated that the suggestion was quite untrue. Again, on the 9th of March, the Right Hon.' George J. Goschen, Firct
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