Japan, the rival in the Far East of Russia, is showing equal foresight. She is succeeding in winning over a large number of the highest officials, and so in pro-paring for a future Alliance that will make the Yellow Race a Yellow Peril.
Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai has been granted Tls. 6,000,000 a year to train a new army of 100,000 men. He has already engaged several Japanese officers, and is consulting as to the engagement of more. A foreign-trained arms, or rather a Japanese-trained army, has been the one measure that he has urged with most force and greatest approval. In a few Fears in North China there will be a stronger army than China has ever had, which will be under Japanese guidance and ready to join with a Japanese army, as has never been possible before.
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