The morning call., 1895-01-12

Aoskoen OF cenfinus ibsir western tour-
reg % TIE direeslon Of 1lsutsla ard
Psklox TIE capture Of MouEdsa wou1d
hare nofsl effect Il IS large citT,
aifa > psprizSioB Of 31G.9E0. L was TIE
capital Of tie I'D Ns8ehE empire. and the
srsssurss Of the ancestors OF the DressEt
rsignlog dYnzsty Of CEi8s are supposed u
b stored .bs-s. Wien the Emperor led
fron Pskiaz =; the advance Of the ADgle-
Preach allies thirty odd years ago Re took
refuge al Moukden- Il il 3 vailed city.
and since the present war broke CIT i Il
na1srstood that sd1iiisDsl worzs Of de-
fe1ss hare teen co7s.Fnetsd By fcr@lgn
engineers. The Chinese msy naturally
consider the pjaes Inprsznsbls and MAJ
s1zl OTsms may perhaps hesitate 70 ~
osrtaks IT'S rsdBeiiops though bsi3igsrsnt
who eeud tot defend Port arthur can
hardly BE expected 70 resist vigorous
attack At ar otter place.
Tie other Inc which the victorious
japanese army may eiec' y follow loEelTes
the passage of the Llza River, ana
thence a march southwest thrqggh TIE
western parton Of The province Of Liag-
Tong, qr SbesgkiDg. and tbe province Of
PechI. 1t Is safe 70 say that 90 sBcb
maIca would be undertaken b. the army
81 z CHRISTIAN power il il were opposed
By agothsr Of the same race. WozleYer
Rad we're followed, ifcoald Dol Be less than
6oy or 100 miles, and these would have 70
be covered 10 the depth Of an lneisment
yinter. The province Of Liae-Iong is
ssd bY gsogrsDbers to contain lz.Go9,0oo
DeopIe-mors than the Southern States
contained at the outbreak Of Cur Civil
War. Ia such Z province Il ought TO D.
easy % raise q larger army than Field
Marshal Oyzms commands. Yet such is
the contempt entertained by the japanese
for their adversary that they are actually
considering this march, and have cut loose
from thsir base of operations, relying Cd
the county 70 support the invading array.
They aEe acting On the theory mat the
Chinese will not fight in any contingency,
and that any attempt 10 stem the inyad-
ing tide viii merely add another 10 the list
Of Chinese defeats.
Japan may believe that peace, 70 be
abiding. must be concluded in the enemS's
capital. TIE HikadO may have read thai
Napoleon made peace with Prussia q! Ber-
lin and with Spain at Madrid, while on
their side the allies concluded their ireaty
with France at Paris; and TOXIC and
Kloto are eiamorous with the cry-on TO
Peking! II is certain that treaty co.,
clu0ed 10 Mancburia might be eyaded By
the tricky Government az Peking on the
ground that it was unauthorized Once
clear Of the mountain spurs il Northern
Pechill a japanese army Of invasion
would meet with no natural obstacle TIL
It reached the city OF Peking Itself, al TIE
head Of the great alluyiai valley Of CANA.
The Chinese capital is girt with a wall
about thirty miles long aud varying from
thirty 70 fifty feet in height and twea ty-hYe
10 sixty feet In thickness al the base. Sucn
a wall nigh, keep on. an static invader,
but Lord Elgin. in 1850. found IL no OBJ
stacIe 10 his advance. though he did not
think IL worth while to bring preaching
train with him. As a. Port AR bur, the
defenders Of the wall simply ran away at
bis approach, tie gates were opened and
he entered without firing q shot. The
Japanese reason that history would repeat
Itself this year and the assump iion may be
iustlfable
II Marshal Oyama marches on Peking
and meets no unexpected checks By the
way, he will reach there about the middle
Of april The interesting question will
then be: What will the boy Emperor Of
China dc? II he runs away, as bis prede-
eessor did 10 1860, will the court camarilia
at Peking declare that his dynasty has for
fsited the throne, as the French did after
Sedan, or will an attempt be made 10 patch
up a peace by cession Of territory and
the payment OF an indemnity? These are
questions with which persons Of sDecu-
lative turn of mind may amuse their