The Danger of Rivalry Among Foreign Powers: inflacnces of the Western World Londo, Dec. 19.
Pointing, out that the native ills of China are aggravated and envenomed by the strange, conflicting influences of the Western world, "The Times" in a leading article to-day, commenting on its Peking correspondent's despatch of Decem. ber 16, asks whether the Westerm peoples, who bear some responsibility for, the present state of China and for whom her speedy recovery is a matter of great economic and political importance, must stand idle till the destructive process has worked itself out.. The journal declares that the peril would be grave if the disorders reached the point of provoking foreign intervention in a form which would stimulate rivalry among the Powers.
"The Times" urges that the foundations of a reasonable policy towards China, framed at Washington, should not be allowed to remain a dead-letter and, im conclusion, says that, if the interested Powers courageously apply serious thought to the problem amd frame a simple scheme for joint reconstruction, they could make a stable Government possible, while simultaneously jhealing half thei own 's,—Reuter.
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