Alleged Piracy on the Huangpr Fee Advance of the Natural-Footed The Men in the Cage The Three Parties in Corea.. The Typhoon in Hongkong The Czar More American Mail Papers he Presidential Election. The Loss of the Novik army corps during the progress of the fighting round Liaoyang, these being presumably troops fresh from Russia! 3 and not suffering from any possible demoralisation from successive defeats, has evidently made the task undertaken by Generals Kuroki, Oku, and Nodzu even harder than they anticipated, and success was so slowly achieved that at one time General Sakharoff announced that he had repulsed the Japanese along the whole line. The more honour to the Japanese troops, worn by six months of continuous fighting in a difficult country and under trying climatic conditions. Dearly won the victory must have been, with very heavy losses on both sides, but Japanese courage, Japanese stra-fogy, and Japanese artillery, and the universal Japanese determination not to be beaten, have succeeded again, as they have in every previous encounter between the two forces. The details when they come will be of absorbing j suppression, Nor is it surprising that the most energetic efforts of the most resolute rulers are in this direction totally ineffectual. Chinese Secret Societies appeal to two of the strongest instincts in haman nature, each pheno-monally developed in this Empire—tho inherent attraction of the marvellous and the mysterious, and the ineradieable instinct of managing one's own affairs in one's own way. In this matter the Chinese probably yield nothing in their essential democracy to any people in the world. All Chinese government largely consists in holding some kind of a balance, however imper fect, between the opposite extremes of unlimited despotism (which can never obtain in China) and unbridled freedom.
No consistent history of their secret organisation has ever been attempted by the Chinese, who have no interest in such inquiries even were they free from danger, which is far from being the
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