Peking, Nov. 29.
The attitude of foreigners here towards the present and future of the Chinese Government is pessimistic in the extreme. The writer kas never heard the opinion generally expressed that China is hopeless. It will take the Chinese people a long time to learn to what an extent the intrigues of the Tsao Jui clique have damaged their country's reputation and credit abroad. The members of the Cabinet, although several of them ere foreign trained and should have some understanding of the working of the Occidental mind, will probably, never realize how sorely they have disappointed their foreign friends and supporters and how loath these same foreigners will be in the future to put faith in any individual Chinese or group of Chinese. That they should surrender their positions when victory over the conspirators and the complete discomfiture of their political enemies was within their grasp is beyond the foreigner's understanding. That they should surrender their country's interests into the hands of a_ coalition of cliques which they know will abuse their responsibility and turn the Government into a burlesque, simply iv the interest of their conception of "face," is wholly outside and beyond the foreigner's conception of patriotism.
Foreign diplomats, financiers, advisors, and all who have any reason whatever to be interested in Chinese affairs are.so profoundly disgusted that whatever Goyernment sits in Peking for many years to come will find itself deal ing in its foreign relations with a breed of sceptics and cynics of a wholly unsympathetic type. The Chinese people can also rest assured that this attitude will be reflected in Government offices abroad, in the foreign press and in all the places where bonds and exchange are sold.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.