are in cireslation, however, among the natives. While the government is well informed, the mass of the people have only the wildest rumours on which to go. The news quickly spread that China, the Great, had at last awakened from her long sleep and was about to show the world something of her historic prowess. No doubt seems to exist in the average native mind as to the outcome. The 'Righteous Fist" of the yellow man will certainly triumph over the "Mailed Fist" of the white man, and the end will be that the Far East can turn orer and go to sleep again for a few centuries. Do not think, however, that the average Corean's sympathies are with the Chinese, and that he would lend him a helping hand if he could. Not much! When it comes to doing anything in the matter he is supremely and unmitigatedly neutral.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.