The age-herald., 1898-09-25
DEFEAT FOR
 OLD ENGLAND DOwager Empress of China Hos- tile Toward Great Britain. TRIUMPH FOR Il HUNG CHANG Old Man of the East Has No
 Love for the English. THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN May Combine With England for Mutual
 Benefit in the East. FRANCE ON VERGE REVOLUTION An Alarming Condition of Affairs Exists ill Paris, and Military Dictator
 ship May be Necessary to
 Preserve the Country.
May Combine With England for Mutual
 Benefit in the East.
FRANCE ON VERGE REVOLUTION

London, September 24.-The recent dra- matic development of the Chinese puzzle came as a disagreeable shock to the peo- pie of Great Britain, and their chagtin was intensified by the fact that they were revelling in their apparent diplomatic tri- umph in the disgrace of Li Hung Chang and the wane of Russian influence. Not only in Great Britain, but abroad, the Queen Dowagers proclamation is interp es- ed as fresh defeat for British policy and as an act of revenge upon the part of Eng lands arch enemy, Li Hung Chang.
 It is generally believed that the mission of the Marquis Ito, the Japanese states man to China, for the purpose of attempt ing to bring about an offensive and defens- i've alliance between Japan and China, was the last straw which reused the tigress in the Empress Dowager and enabled the Russian party, led by Li Hung Chang, to regain it's influence It is well known the Chinese is spite of their defeat in the war with Japan regard the Japanese as inferior beings and the intense hatred of the Dow ager Empress for anything Japanese is also an acknowledged fact.
 Ii Hung Chang
 Advices reveved here from the European capitals indicate that political critics antici- pate the reinstatement of Ii HuE Chang in power, and that the reactionary wave in China will lead to closer understanding between the United States, Great Britain and Japan, resulting in combined meas ure in reforms. The French newspapers rejoice at the prospect of Ii Hung Chang's return to power simply because 1t would be unpleasant for Great Britain. The refarrinp tO the reform edictS of the Emperor of China, says:
 His reforming ardor was marked by more zeal than discretion. To suggest that the Mandarins publish their accounts of re- ceipts and expenditures was like plucking out their souls"
 The impatience here to learn the outcome of the journey of General Sir Herbert Kitchener to Fashoda is in no wise altered and although the press on both sides Of the channel is camer this week, yet anxiety is evinced in Great Britain in. regard to the effect that the determined action of General Kitchener will have upon France in view of the critical political situation in that country. There are fears that the French authorities may seek a foreign diversion from their Internal strife.
 The Parisan newspapers, however, have adopted more compromising tone and in- stead of declaring that the French flag will never be lower at Fashoda they now put forward the occupation of that place py Major Marchand as lever by which France may be able to obtain advantages elsewhere.
 The Folair for example says:
 England Mutt Pay
 "Great Britain must buy our renuncia- tion of our claims there, as she bought Ger many's."
 The Temps also declares that the situa- ton now is simply one of coming to an agreement as to conditions of exchange.
 The alarming condition in France rivets the attention of Europe. The excitement Is increasing hourly( new revelations and de- velopments are expected, and a military coup d'etat would not surprise anybody. The weakness of M. Brisson, tl,~ premier, over the affair of Lieutenant-Colonel Pic quart, who is now in secret confinement in the military prison of Cherche Midi, has disgusted even his owH personal friends who call him a coward and dolt. while the enemies of revision of the Dreyfus case accuse him of being a hypocrite and of having sold himself to Dreyfus syndicate, an organization which undoubtedly exists.
 General Zurlinden, who is only a mere military governor of Paris with the cogni- zance of General Chanoine, who succeeded the latter as minister of war, acted entirely without reference to the premier, M Bris- son. who, with a majority of his colleagues, was completely dumbfounded at his pro- ceedings. The supporters of the cabinet declare that M. Brisson, in order to save the constitution, should dismiss General Chanoine and General Zurlinden and even arraign them for reasonable conduct Only bold action will secure the supremacy of civil law.
 One satisfactory feature of the prescu- tion of Colonel Picquart is that the war office has engaged to give him an open trial, which M. Brisson insisted upon before he consented to the prisoners transfer to the prison of Cherche Midi The friends of Colonel Picquart declare that if he is pub- licly tried he will throw floods of light upon the whole matter
 President Faure's Role
 In an interview published in today's Daily News, former parliamentarian, who has figured in all the political events in France, in 1869, is quoted as expressing