The leading Japanese papers are keenly interested in the Anglo-German polemic with reference to the peace-settlement in the Far East. The Tokio authorities also seem to have received official explanations more than once from the Wilhelmstrasse. The " Kokumin Shimbun," which deliberately maintains its high reputation among the vernacular Press, commenting on this subject, fully admits the German fairness in dealing with the Russian warships which took refuge at Tsingtao. There is no denying the fact that the German authorities acted more promptly than the French oficial who had handle the Diana at Saigon. The define ite announcement by the Washington the disposal sries ergreon, invulnerable thujas that look as if they were dripping, tamarix with foliage like mossy sophoras of huge size, m"gnolias, ete.
Indeed this sity. might be called the ity of many and big trees. It is also reworkable among the cities of China as having two delightful promenades withia ite wails, not to spank of that usual to most inese' cities along its walls. affected by Chinese is across what they call a Luke. It might be called " mars covered with lotus at this season in full rosy bloom, only unfortunately all the buds ure picked overnight to be offered for in the morning. There beneath willow es among the opening lotus, the doree of ths city saunters, 6 tea, gels photographed, or feeds the innumerable sacred fishes at an ancient temple. Europeans as a rule awld the march, and wander "wong the limestone rock pinnacles on the high ground between the North and East Gates. Each promen-!
has much to recommend it.
Mr. Amundscn's hobby or business seems to be languages; " Norwogi English perfec ly, and Chinese fairly well; he has also brought out a vocabulary and text-book in Tibetan. It soams tint he offered to go nsinterpreter with the English Mission but p-mibly too early. If only bin serv one ind boon accepted pooubly i mn avoided rays accompanied by a Tibetan, who from the aye of eleven was a Lama, a yellow Lama, in the great Lameselai, two imiies outside Lhasea. He has often wandered over the Potala, talks of the peaches and apricots, on which probably our troops are regaling now, but says there in no other fruit; that none there will eat pork, chicken, or eggs, but that beef, mutton, cheese, butter, wilk, and taambs or barley are delicious. He his one brother still a bat dare not return to Tibet to convert him, a8 he says the moment he should attempt to dos" he would be killed. He and his wife are both good linguists, able to make themselves] understood in' Tibetan, Hindustani, Eng-Tish, and Chinese. He longs to se his; country under " British p: otectorate, freed from ths tyranny of the Lamas. It seems as if the twentieth century were tod" away with the temporal power of the Pope trid the grand Lan, and. cither the tom. poral or the spiritual power of the Czar of liners and s good quantity of coal, this causing some trouble in the Berlin oficial circles. But the Brisish merchants, on the other hand, are reported to have sold Cardiff coal, inter alia, to the Russian navy, and it is not prohibited by the it, which does not re-that gard coal as contraband of war. Japan of to-day is not Japan in 1895, and would entertain no fear if Germany were to go to the length of joining the Franco-Russian group, as Japan would than be able to get other friendly Powers to supporter. The Tokio paper maintains that it is most dangerous if Germany act as rumoured by some British papers, and it is to be much more regretted for Germany than for Japan under the existi i on the subject, ese correspondent who is well versed in affairs, writes in the Tokio " Asahi," that if there is any definite tendency showing that Rossia can draw off her troops from the German frontiers, the existence of some understanding may be inferred on this point, but the so-called welt-politik of Germany does not seem to reconcile itself with the Muscovite ambitions. The Kaisor's scheme with regard to Asia Minor and th Railway is by no means in conformity with Russian interests. The above correspondent, how-or, observes the probability of some between Russia and Grmany. temporising arrangement in East Asia
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