Now that the Mission to Tibet has turned out to be a much more serious unning to attract a good deal of attention in dertaking than was anticipated, it is begin-the United States. Many leading articles on the subject are to be found in the batch of pepers received by the last mail. The fact that Great Britain has at last officially announced that she is at war with Tibet is vigorously commented on, and the opinion yeema to be gaining ground that the thin ize of the wedge has been inserted, that Tibet is lost to China, and that it is destined ultimately to become an integral pert of thst great Christian Empire upon which the sun never sels and in which the sword is never sheathed.
The "Chicago Chronicle," under the heading of "The Gentle Art of Making War," gives what appears to us a very lucid jon of the case, as will be seen from the following extract from its columns:—3 This fact (the announcement that Great Britain is at war with Tibet) has been Known unofficially from the time that Colonel Younghusband's column entered the Himalaya mountains under the designation of a surveying iti spokesman in the personage than Lord Lansdown ter of Foreign Affairs, offered justification for the war which Great Britain has inaugurated against the peaceably-disposed Tibetans by referring to them as Jand just north of her Indian. possessions il-Instrates how a premeditated war may be pirated by the gentiest means and un-Jer continuous professions of peace. Both Great Britain and Russia coveted Tibet, but either dared mike en openly aggressive Tnovement against it for fear of the other, The Bear lay upon the northern border and the Lion upon the southern boundary and watched each other with jealous No had Russia become involved with the Lion' advanced across the ostensible purpose of deter~ ning the exact boundary line. As his Ultimate destination was the Tibetan apitol, manifestly be could not stray far from the border in the guise of a surveyor; hence the Foreign Office found that a treaty to proceed to peccoabla and highly moral purpose of per-Jusding the Tibetans to maintain a more rigid observance of treaty obligations. How this political mission, westing the uniforms of British soldiers and beering the weapons of infantry and artillery, was met by the Tibetans and ordered back and how finally the misguided keepers of the sanctuary of Buddhism attempted to drive them back is known in detail to all who have followed the course of the peaceable Britons. At last patience and peaceable inventions ceased to be virtues and the announcement is now officially made that Great Britain intends to vindicate her position by force of arms.
The "Detroit Tribune" prophesies after the event, asserting that the British ought to have expected what they are getting. In ite leading article it makes the following reference to the subject:—The British advance on Lhassa will have its progress determined largely by the personal character of the Tibetans. If this peculiar people has any homes and institutions to cherish, the rood to their sacred city will be drenched with good British blood. of the larger question of the onward stride of armed civilisation and the fatalistic evolution of the races, there is at issue north of the Gyangtse the question whether these pastoral tribes will permit of a rude invasion of their homes. Putting ourselves in their place, let us ask, "What would we do?" The British mission does not come with oblations to lay on the altar of our gods, it does not come with ngs of gold and precious stones, of frankinosnse and myrrh, but -with rifles cocked and primed and offers to govern our country and direct its trade into British pockets. "Would the road to Lhasse be palm-strewn at our hands? We think not.
dead Tibstan with his blood on the door-will be a greater inspiration for human conep duct than a subjugated Tibetan paying tribute to his conqueror. The dispatches tell of Capt. Parr's East Indian scouts being slowly put to death by the Tibetans. Cruelty is to be expected of this crude but jealous people, but where is the American who has a home who has net got the iden into his head that this is pretty much what would happen to any scout who hired nin-self to such a purpose against his home.
The steady advance of Generu] Kuroki's army towards Linoyang; the march on Dalny, and the consequent control of the whole of Southern Manchuria, except Port Arthur, by the second army that landed at Pitsewo and other points on the, southwestern coast of the Liaotung Peninsula; and the rumoured possibility of Chinese uprising against the Russians, despite the reassurances of the Chinese Government that China will remain strictly neutral in the present: conflict—all these aspects of the struggle were being discussed when the mail just received' was leaving the States.
The "Seattle Daily Times" calls attention to the notification by the Russian Government that no offer of mediation will be entertained now or hereafter. and, fur ther, that when the time comes to, arrange the terms of peace, Russia will receive no advice and will tolerate no intervention by individual or nation. We give the subjoined extract from its columns.—
The Russian Government declares its pur-peso to carry on the war with all the resources of the Empire until the Japanese be vanquished. Here again one observes the conceit of the Russians. No possible chance of Russian defeat enters their calculations—nor can the Russian mind think that in the settlement of the difficulties in the Far East the Powers may have something to say. Indeed, this is a high-handed. borist,. as ridiculous and as overbearing as Russia's assumption at-the time of diplomatic negotiations, that delay would wear the Japanese out. " But Russia has been attacked and the Czar has proven so far human as to degrade the man of all men who blundered the nation into war—ex-Viceroy Alexeieff. Even should Rassia win in this struggle she will find that England and France and the United States and Germany will have a great deal to say as to the final treaty of which will end hostilities. This 1s 0 form of intervention which is unbearable to Rassian conceit but which is inevitable. If Russia could just think this for one day she would make a long advance. But finally the boast that Russia is to impose terms on Japan and then force that nation to meet them all reasonable conception. Were Japan to retire to hor island to-day and simply increase her navy in the same ion that Russia should rebuild a navy, the nation of little brown men would be absolutely independent of Russian domination. Anybody but a Russian can seo this. But Russia is a world unto itself, and Tike a Christian Scientist does not admit the existence of anything outside its own thoughts.
The "Chicago Chronicle" animadverts on what it calls the "awakening of Russia, teferrig to the fact that when the Russian Government entered into negotiations with the Government at Tokio, respecting their relative rights in Manchuria and Corea. Russia had only contempt for Japan, and the assertion is made that the entire correspondence is evidence that Russia did not believe Japan would venture to resist a nation of such territorial vastness and military force as the Empire of the Czar. We give the following extract Despite her unpreparedness, Russia manifested no evidence that she appreciated the tine condition of affairs in the Eust. eve when ho-tilities had begun. Her contempt for Japan Was as great as ever and wag dis
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