Tu mass of telegrams sent out broadcast by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and eighteen other important mercantile bodies representing several different provinces, in protest against renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, constitute an event of which the important Mi be apparent to all. We are inured to telegrams from student organizations which have long lost whatever power of influence abroad they may ever have had. But we recall no instance of the Chinese busi-hess community thus exerting itself on so large a scale; and though some may object that it is probably a case of the tail Wagging the dog, of " small, energetic section controlling the whole machinery of the guilds and associations for its own ends, the effect will not be aby the less pronounced, at Jeast inside China. 'The one subject in' foreign polities on which all Chinese feel acutely and with the same burden of complaint jis, unfortunately, Japan. That feeling is accurately represented in the contention which Teappears.~ agreements and lin different words, in each of
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