The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-22
CHINA AND THE CRISIS.

China will oppose the further en-
croachment of Russia. The Chinese
foreign Office has Informed the Russian
minister that the extension Of the
Manchuria railway to Picking will have
TO be abandoned. Great Britain has
informed the Chinese government that
her sympathies are with the latter and
that if any help - needed in the en-
forcement of this decision Great Britain
is prepared to furnish it.
This looks like a crisis in the Orient
Notwithstanding the peaceful profess
sions of the powers through their repre-
sentatives at The Hague. It is gen.
orally conceded in European diplomatic
circles that the entire question of
Russian and British rights in China
has been reopened by this ultimatum of
the Tsung Ii Yamen.
1t is said that the proposed railway
was intended to further intrench
Russia on Cninese soil and that the
natives are at last taking alarm at the
wonderful inroads the car has made
during the past few years. The inter
est of the British is natural, for when
lIc SpOlIdlltii DtSlllS Slt HdHlS all
equal opportunity with the rest. Then
there are private interests to protect.
The concession asked for would ruin
the existing northern railways. in
which British capital 10 the amount of
e2,0O0,00o is invested. And the Chinese
themselves have a railway project in
view that would be materially weakened
if this Russian road should be built.
Russia's dominion in Asia is being
rapidly extended. While her attitude
in China is attracting the most atten-
ton she is not unmindfui of other
points Of vantage. The Persian gulf is
going the way of the gulf of Pe-Chi-
Ii. and Bandar Abbas. the most i'm
portant port on the former, has been
taken just as Port Arthur was seized
This Persian coast is regarded as one
of the political centers of Asia, and it
will be bristling with Russian guns and
telegraph poles before many months.
In spite of her burden of an army
and her heavy undertaking with
navy, her enormous expenses and the
famines and plaques from which her
people are suffering and dying by
thousands Russia Stems to prosper II
one may judge from the number of
public works successfully undertaken
by the government, then, most certain
~ the history of Russia during the last
twenty years. and more particular
~ since the accession of Nicholas II, will
be chronicied by future generations as
an era of marvellous prosperity
While Great Britain has been fighting
to hold her own in Asia and has been
extending her territory in Africa. while
Germany has been building up her
commerce but keeping an immense
army in idleness, and France been dis
GUESSING, without reaching any definite
solution, the question of the Paris
metropolitan railroad, of the inter-
oceanic canal, and of the proposed
harbor for Paris, Russia has during the
same time been transformed.
Asia has been melted with railroads
New ones have been built others ex-
tended. harbors built, and new cities
have arisen in much the same manner
as in our own western states. AS an
instance of this rapid development of
the Russian empire the recent unsuc-
cessfui attempt to build road to
Picking may be cited. Then telephone
lines are being put up all over the en-