Balloon tyres and detachable steel artillery wheels are fitted a standard. Lubrication by grease gun is provided for. Lighting and starting is on the 12 volt system. The dynamo is monnied above the magneto and i: driven by an adjustable chain which is enclosed. The battery is carried under the front foot boards. The starter operates by means of a Bendix drive on a gear ring on the exposed flywheel: it is noisy in action. Petrol feed is by gravity, the tank being fitted under the dash. The filler cap is under the bonnet and a petrol level indicator is fitted on fat wrestlers of Japan were the! foremost among popular (writes tke "Span Chronicl They. even vied with the actors in the affections of the ladies, while it was considered honour for a man to be allowed to feast them. But now they are allen on evil days, and the profession is suffering a financial cris Visitors to the Ekoin, the wrestling, urg at Tokyo, are dwindling. It used to charge as much as a frst-class theatre, but in view of the pre-ion the Ekoin, on the first day of itg bouts in January this year, threw all the classes of the House open to visitors at 50 sen! per head. Even at this rate it loi, the fourth having but 2 few The Wrestling Association has a debt of ¥75,000. has lessened dividends to its impresarios, but this has failed to ate its financial stress. The Kahn, or special emoluments for Gento wrestlers, which! at one time were quoted at $15,000 per share, have markedly dropped. The directors of the association are now:-racking their brains as to know to recoup Josses and make the finis a presumptuous thought which makes the Legation employee long, for the powers of the inquisition There is, doubtless a grain of truth in this diatribe but Chi is a vast country with mixed elements of good and bad, and when missionaries, business men and] diplomats agree on a certain view there are probably elements of, truth in it beside the selfish one of the personal equation.
Only Force is Successful "China has never had such a as government by consent! of the governed, (My. Gilbert says). With each new dynasty the land and the people on it have been the prizes awarded to the champion in a free-for-all fight who has demonstrated his fitness to rule by the masterful and unscrupulous exercise of violence or craft.
Against a strong government, whether good or bad, the Chinese Feople have never rebelled. The strong and ruthless Emperor had only to whisper an order and the most atrocious cruelties were practised in his name without eliciting a rebellious murmur. But Rice, established a Protectorate over Cuba and undertaken to bring' the Philippines up in the way they should go, He announced his famous open door policy' to all the nations of Europe and the East, pledging them all to the embarrassing understanding that China should be allowed to go to pot in her own His reward was the Boxer movement in which China proceeded—to_butcher American missionaries with much eclat as those of any other nationality. Some years Inter when the Chinese still trembled at the mention of foreign intervention, America was further rewarded for John Hay's kind services by the frst boycott upon foreign goods, directed against the simple-minded and sentimental Americans in 1905, because of their _restrictic Chinese labour immigration California."
There are few of Mr. Gilbert's statements that will "be more con-troverred than this one. It is true China has sorely disappointed those who expected better things of her than her recent history can show, but these lapses by no means give and the Chinese he would produce, in due course of years, a hook as monstrottsly hiyge as some of China's own reference works."
We can torsive Mr. Gilbert a good deal for these words.
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