It looks as though the Legations or the Powers thought that because the Lincheng affair happen-edi or a railway the great chaos and anarchy in China, of which it is only a fairly conspicuous outcropping, could find no other medium for manifestation than a railway. It seems to show abysmal ignorance of the real conditions in this country, and the causes behind these conditions, which made Lincheng possible.
It looks og though the only folk who had got the ear of the high factotums in London were the men with vested railway interests in China and that these men were short-sightedly catering to their own immediate convenience and profit, indifferent to the obvious fact that their little superficial measure will prompt a violent expensive reaction against their own and all other foreign interests in this country. Even Chinese of wisdom and experience tremble at the prospect and say: "If intervention is slated for Heaven's sake do it properly.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.