The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-06-20
WORLD COMBAT PENDING.
Significance or Events Row Geing on
In China.
Nec Fork Journal.

powers OF Europe nave DeeE Ste&0lIy
preparing themselves for the breaking
up Of the Chinese empire. Japan and
the United States have also made
ready for the collapse Of the Manchu
dynasty.
The whole world will feel the X
Of the colossal events which are n
pending in Asia, and the spr Of
missionary blood which has set fleets
and troops in motion toward Ti.r-
Tsin, is but the first signal of strug-
gle that will probably involve every
important nation.
This assembling Of war ships in the
Gulf of Pc. chilli is not an accident.
1t is part Of plan matured long
ago. 1t is the first step toward the
partition of China and her four hun
dred million inhabitants among the
great powers.
Every important statesman in Eu-
rope has predicted that the political
roof Of Asia would crash in this year
or next year, and that the first out
break against Christian missionaries
would set the processes of dissolution
in motion.
The thing that is about to happen
will change the map Of the world. It
may overturn more than one kingdom.
During my stay in China last year I
learned enough to know that civilized
Europe had officially decreed the death
Of the empire. And when 1 reached
Europe I found that the American
ambassadors in the great capitals had
been instructed by Secretary Hay to
secure from the governments to which
they were accredited definite pledges
that, in the event Of the breaking up
Of China, the ''open door, policy
would hold in all new territory acquir-
ed by them. 1t was we'll understood
that this agreement between the pow
ers Of the world, secured through the
efforts Of the United States, was made
necessary by unmistakable evidence
that China was powerless to resist the
all-engulfng movements Of Russia.
The fall Of Poland gave the czar
window looking out on Europe. Then
began the Russian movement toward
Constantinople. The Black Sea was
to be the base Of a great Russian
feet. This movement was checked
by England, and the triple alliance,
formed under the presidency of the
German emperor, has ever since re-
siste! the efforts Of Pan-Slavism to
force a military outlet to the Mediter-
ranean.
Russia turned her face from i'm
prsgnabla Europe to the far east.
Her engineers planned the Siberian
railway, steam highway six thousand
miles long. This was TO give Russia
the outlet in the Pacific that had been
denied 10 her Ia Europe.
Then came the China.J apanese war.
Japan drove the Chinese army out of
Corea, and an army corps, under Field
Marshall Yamagata, occupied the
hermit peninsular. Japan crossed the
Yellow Sea and invaded Manchuria.
Twenty three thousand Japanese SOL
diers, under Field Marshal Oyama,
conquered an empire Of four hundred
millions.
It is true that the Japanese did not
go beyond Port Arthur, Wei-HaiWei
and Ticn-Chwang, but there is no
doubt that Oyama's compact little
invading force could have marched
from one end Of the Chinese empire
to the other without meeting effective
opposition. I accompanied the field
marshal and saw everywhere complete
and unmistakable evidence of the
military impctency of China.
The treaty Of Shimonoseki gave
province of Manchuria, including the
powerfully fortified harbors Of Port
Arthur and Talien-Wan, t, Japan.
Russia, backed by France and Ger
many, forced japan to waive these
rights on the Chinese main
land.
Then Russia moved swiftly. By
supporting the Emperor Of Corea
against the rough domination Of the
Japanese. the csar's influence became
supreme in Corea, which adjoins Man
churia, and wfil.furnish seaport ter
for the Siberian railway
naval base, free from ice in winter
weather. Russia guaranteed, and
partly furnished, the money for the
heavy war indemnity exacted by
Japan. and thus acquired q hold on