The absolute insanity of the present struggle also impresses us: why thousands of men should be grow it abundantly and sell it to the Chinese. Liu F-chin has his keen on this means of revenue and since his army needs an occasional remuneration, he is quite prepared foolishly to sacrifice thousands of young lives to get it. If these two generals with their armies would ting this mephitic haunt of destruction they would go down history as men who had served Taoyin oF THE TiBeTAN Bornes. their day and generation. But? Unfortunately extermination is not the watchword but appropriation, In China nothing becomes gold quicker than opium and the Chinese army will uphold the ancient. tr tions of the Celestial Empire if paid in either substance. The quarrel between Liu and Chen becomes exceedingly intricate and has a personal, political, and financial bear-ting, and the word army may Tie at the root.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.