In his bulletin, the French jour-! rialist, announced that as a result of conferences by cable between London, Washington, Paris, Tokyo and international intervention had all conferences and negotiations with the Chinese were to be broken off the country was to be patrolled by an international force with a Japanese vanguard of 20,000 men, who were to Tand in North China before the end of the year; and, since the Red Kuomin chun had come into complete control of Peking, the Powers thad been foreed to the conclusion that the Chinese Government had ceased to exist. This message was, in the printed bulletin, credited to "American wireless", At the very outset it did not seem possible that anything 40 thoroughly in keeping with the "legitimate a: pirations" of the foreign communities in China and so fully expressive of their cherished opinions, could possibly have been concocted Occidental capitals was far too much in the substance of the message to warrant such an assumption We also know perfectly well that, no such suggestion had ever mana ed from this diplomatic community. There was a great deal too much frankness and courage in it to permit of the thought of such a source. As a ballan dossal from the Ri Legation would feel bound to resign. The thought that others might be poli rooved to emulation cheered us for 'a little while, but now that days have gone by and the intervention story takes on hourly more.and more the character of a myth, ink, further and further back into the state of gloom which oppressed the community before Mr. Nachbour, gave us a brighter (Christmas.
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