in China for the past year, this correspondent points out, has convinced the Chinese that this Government is not inspired by a lust of conquest, and does not seck territorial aggrandisement.
While demanding exact justice and the fullest reparation for the loss of life and the destruction of property of American zens, the course of this government has been marked by the most scrupulous honesty, and it has on every occasion shown a desire to temper justice with merey. It has discouraged all thought of revenge. It has refused to impose terms which would simply mean national humiliation and lead to no good results.
The policy of the State Department in endeavouring to prevent the signing of the Manchurian treaty. was not dictated by antagonism to Russia or by friendship for any other Power, but was simply to safeguard the interests of this country.
It has the greatest interest in seeing the markets of China kept open to the fair competition of all the nations of the world. So long as the Manchurian market is a free field to all comers the United States can count upon always finding an outlet there for much of its surplus products, but if Russia should obtain' control the door would be closed to American enterprise.
RUSSIA'S PROVOCATION, It is understood here that Russia bases her claim of propriety in undertaking individual negotiations with China, on. the fact that her territory north of the Amur river was invaded by Chinese regular soldiers whose Commander produced, in justification of his course, orders emanate ing directly from the Court at Peking: that this was an act separate from and quite different from those for which the other Powers, in common with Russia, have secured punishment and demanded indemnity and satisfaction. It is supposed that it was this alleged distinction between the position of Russia and that of the other Powers which led Count von Billow to say in the Reichstag that the Anglo-German agreement did not cover the case of Manchuria.
THE CAPTURE OF AGUINALDO, through the daring and desperate exploit of Colonel Funston, and the subsequent
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