Next to the recent victory of the Hankow army "which thoroughly discredited the Shanghai correspondents who had been announcing, The impending dissolution of that government, the most important vents have been the sending of Sapanese and American forces north China, both formally protested by the Peking Foreign Minister. Concerning, Japan, the. missionary above quoted reports finding in that gauntry a general distrust of the Premier on account of his financial and militarist record. notes a lending Japanese editor falling him that, Japan mtust_ be [prepared to make present sacrifices order to gain the future goodwill economic collaboration of Chin:
also' reports that Chinese and suspicion toward is much modified during the past two years.
Duianty, the Peking correspondent the "New York Times," without mentioning our troop movement, says; the British are rushing as_many troops us possible north from Shang. hai and trying to bluff or frighten the, other Powers into doing like-his it {8 said explains the Fidiculous scare stories from Tientain and elsewhere, the target of which is Washington."
Meantime the military are reported to want the legation moved to Tientsin as easier to defend but the diplomats object on grounds of pre:
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