"She will Be'Stronger than ever in a few years' time," the same man said, "and may even become strong enough in a compars rise she firmly believes in, There other reasons, however, that i to act thus. Her experiences in Formosa Khorat obliged to fly for his life, carrying ith him his household gods and followed his numerous retinue of alleged pro-ye pr clusively to her that the teges? I shudder to think of it. Lam lomsation or administration of conquer- somewhat puzzled at the same time by territories is not her forte, and that it this coolness, sagacity, foo expensive a luxury for her to indulge mon common-sense of the Japanese the uncial erfsis in her at home and the Japanese abroad. I will ory has cost her give an example in the shape of the follow-little return ing extract from the " London and China be shor that outlay. In spite Express": of its 14,000 square miles it only numbers "Mr. R. Tatsui, ex-Secretary to the 000 Japanese settlers in its population Japanese Minister of Agriculture and Com-of 2,800,000, and, if recent Japanese merce, and now managing editor of the statistics are to be relied on, many of these chief daily paper in Tokio, the " Nichi are of the same class as that left behind Nichi Shimbun," is in England, and in the by the Japanese armies in Corea—military course of a conversation with the editor of prisoners under sentence of death, camp-the " Daily Express " made some pertinent: followers, and scallywags of every descrip-remarks on the situation in the Far East. tion. At any rate, their criminal record "The present fearful state of things,' is far higher comparatively than that of [he said, with some bitterness, is due to any other section of the Formosan com-[the shameless treatment Japan received ity. Japan does not therefore wish after her victorious campaigns against I herself, in case of a partial parti-China five years ago. tion, of her right to Fukien, which is a "*Then'what do you suggest should he poor, mountainous province overcrowded done, Mr. Tatsui 2" Well, while your by the worst characters in Ghina; and if statesmen are haggling and on the point she finds it absolutely necessary to take of quarreling, your compatriots are being, over Amoy in order to prevent lawless butchered, you are still trying to reckon bands from passing over into Formosa, it without Japan. You are still endeavouring vill be really against her will she will' do to prevent Japan from shanny in the spoil. it, and at a loss that she will hold it.
You are making all kinds of impossible
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