Audience with the Empress Tokyo, Dec. 5. ceived in audience Ge Hsu Shu-tseng who is leaving for China to-morrow on the str. President Mac-Kinley, In a statement to the press this afternoon General Hsu expressed gratification that Japan was assuming neutrality and said that he wa: returning to China earlier than he intended as the situation demanded his presence—Reuter's Pa vice, A writes in "Russ is at paing to show that there is a parallel between the present disorders. in China and the Thirty Years' War. He admits that in the internecine strife in China no great general have emerged, whereas the conyers: was the case in Europe. But the European commanders, if they were great generals, were out, as Chinese generals sre, for personal aggrandiscment,
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