It is not my object, however, to refer to these threats or to what may come of them, but to show how the faithlessness of Europe is tending to make the subjects of the Mikado'look forward with more and more anxiety to a day when they will he working hand in hand with the only race they can understand—the Cfinese—and will need tomake no more engagements with the unmentionable white man. Even before this unfortunate Anglo-German matter, the Japanese in general manifested 'a good deal of sympathy for the Chinese They seemed india been done them and indent 2: ly forget the R5'Ge filled with pity for even the worst of the Chinese reactionaries. The European papers that came out here teeming with allusions to the necessity of ven-glance and punishment filled them with surprise and bewilderment. Russia's sug-ion that the Allies evacuate Peking was received in this country with much satisfaction, the only regret of the Japan-tse being that they had not made it dust. OF Into this racial sympathy had been stronger and stronger. As stance of the form it sometimes takes I may refer to a pathetic description of the oxcoution of Ki aid Suh, two of the Boxer leaders, which has just appeared in the "Yomiuri." Just before the execttion Ki, who had, says the "Yomiuri, "been always noted for his sterling character" was visited by his wife. "It was a parting between an heroic husband and an heroic wife." The dying speech of the "heroic" Boxer is then given, and a fine manly speech it is. Then we are treated to a thrilling account of the loneliness and grief of the wife and of her beautiful daughter, a maiden of 19 years. Finally we are told how on the seventh day after Ki's execution the two ladies held a most elaborate religious service for the repose of Ki's soul, and how they determined after the service was over to kill themselves. "For what had they to live for? 'What could they expect but to die in the end victims to the lust and cruelty of the civilised' fiends like hundreds of others of their sex and nationality
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