The Archive · 1902

The China Dumps

ith November.

Let us hasten at the outset to reassure the reader. We are not about to describe a new disease, but to refer to a very old one which, while not confined in its exhibitions to this Empire, is perhaps more chronic, more exacerbating, and more incurable here than anywhere else in the world. It is in.ehort a deep-seated dissatisfaction with " i China," and a more or less tinguichable conviction that on the whot+ we have had enough of it.

That this feeling is at times common to all foreigners in the Far East may be a general truth, as has been already suggested, but in China there ple as their sovereign by right divine. are reasons for it not elsewhere to be met with, let us say in Japan, or in.

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