Weakness of Having Recognized Peking: Need of Appeal to the New Spirit London, Sept. 26.
Dealing with the question of tervention in "Distracted China/ the "Times" says that it is une fortunate that it seemed necessary to maintain "'the diplomatic fiction that the provisional Government in Peking is the Government of China,' Inert submission to this conventional view, says the journal, is the weakest form of diplomacy. A fresh initiative is necessary.
Britain's best opportunity at the present moment, according to the paper, lies in a non-political appeal to the new spirit in China which is expanding independently of and despite the cruel party-war. Wise ce-operation with the Chinese educational movement, such as the proper vse of the Boxer Indemnity Fund, would be the most suitable aim for the best British effort, in the opinion of the journal, which says in conclusion that as long as British lives fave not endangered, the welter of the tuchuns is not our eoneern—
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