Russian newspapers are much disturbed apparently avent the Yellow Peril! At least there is a good deal published at the present moment on this $rginal subject not only in the St. on this aide of the wend oe Press ress but in the Russi The Port Arthur. paper has a leading article on this subject in its issue of 8th Octob2r (21st). Ihe gist of that article is that unless the Kussians hasten to colonies the Primorsk, the Chinese will colonies it with results that will in course of time prove bad for Russia's Far East ern possessions. In the district alluded to, says the "Novi Kral," the natives get "by an evil irony the richest Iand and the Russians the poorest."
Progress Slow.
"Tt would be uncandid to deny that the economic prospects of the Primorsk are improving," says the same paper, "but the improvement is slow and hardly visible. Tue place is almost full, too, and this filling up, which must be placed to the account of the Chinese labourers who have been pouring into the district, cannot but be regarded as a serious danger because... it is seriously disadvantageous for us to have on our hands a foreign army in the shape of a multitude of unemployed coollies, the efiscouring of the Chinese population."
Phe Port Arthur paper then goes on to show that the danger is not visionary, and it recommends the sending to_ the Primorsk or Russian artisans as well as Russian labourers. Judging by the tone of the Port Arthur paper's article, mat-Primorsk. é ide ters must be b: coming serious in the
The St. Petersburg "Viedomosti seems to be a confirmed believer in the reality of he " Xellow Peril" for it frequently publishes articles on that alarming subject. Its latest harps on that old theme, the impossibility of the Russian labourer competing with the Chinese on account of the latter's low standard of living. Although the writer of that article claims to know the Far East thoroughly, he stows that his acquaintance with it 1s merely superhcial by the idealized Chinam:.n that he presents to us,—a being able to live on a handful of rice per day_and having almost: no wants whatever. If h had had any lengthy experience of the Far East he would know that as the Chinaman or the Japanese advances in the scale of civilisation his wants become mute, and that if he does not advance in the scale of civilisation he cannot compete with the European.
Again, the latest issue of the "Novi Kral" contains a long article by a Mr. Gorcinog' who shows that the " Yellow Peril" is so to steak, thundering of our very doors. He warns Europe that Chinese cheap labour will soon knock them out of the ring, bankrupt them, crush them. As for the Chinese army, everything leads one to believe that a formidable army will be created. Japanese are helping to build arsenals. Chang Chictamg has got detach-nts of soldiers trame in European style under the direction of Japancee officers. China is preparing for war; and in the mad "drang nach Osten." that has seized on them, the European Powers do not see, it seems, these terrible graves that are yawning for future generations. And what will you see, once the Chinese army is fully eaniypped, well-trunedjand ready to fight? How: many soldiers do you think it will be able to put into the field? As many as you like. 10 nillio"s? Let it be ten lions. Why, Chinvse army can then nash ¢ vries in Europe. For the Chaine ¢ alo will ko equipped with all the latest engines of destruction invented by Of-rr Krupp, etc., ete. In short Mr. Goreinoff_ considers the Chinaman about as peaceful as a live shell. He may explode at ary moment and scatter destruction,—eecnome, social, and material, all sides of him.
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