What Li Haog-chang deigned to tell me thea and later about the sims and schemes of oar abnormal friends and back-friends, together with what I learned from other sources on thy abject, let la a flood of light upon the turn their bache upon us and' make pol ical sigoiicance of Manchuria, ans common cause with the enemy, against convinced me that this part of the whom we paid them tostond bys, And Enstera problem is indeed a Westera then, to crown all, they themselves pnt problem. And those data form thr yon us just the insults and the in-groundwork of th following, narrative janes which they had undertaken to' mode propos shield us from at all cots. Whether Everyone that, Manchuria ix or no we are inverted Europeans,' th Chinese provines. Taterestional law certainly look like inverted Chinese. says so, and therefore it must be true And, on the other hand, strange to But in the native Iand of the reigning aerrate, wbichever one of them happens Chinese dynasty international law is" to be the fos: sgeinst whose streck we dead letter, Whea s European emigrates Uh 537 to Mancha be generally fancies be is administration to help or hinder him, and he takes his precautions accordingly. Bat the moment he ets foot in Harbin he finds himself la Russia, He most is equipment for the trade or industry to His disputes with Chinese. German:
or even with his The prisons are Rassian. In short, the European leoras that be is not in (hina all, but in a province of the dominions. The reason of th formation of one State into another is that a Rossiao railway existe there, and enjoys a monstrous concession, which bestows apon it all bose rights aod many more, Merely a Thi realm within " realm has given rise to comedies of errors, and also to industrial tragedies, Dispaten cropped and dogeasrated into quarrels. At-some people, by way of qualifying them-neives for the part of peace-mal looked into the origin of these Inrge privileges and made disconcerting discoveries, To the question why shoald the Tear's Government wield special sights in Chios, the Russian Minister Plenipotentiary answered, because of the charter. That, howe merely reply, not an answer. For why shoald charter bestow political prot pon ao indastri unmolested 7 [by Chisese law.
1 legitimate no railway company can eri ussly claim to be regarded as an independent Siate. Pretensions of that kind are preposterous. Argamente in favour of them are raled out of vJoart by international law.
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