New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

senting not China is helpless and Prince Chtng
has only one resuit-the continuance of the Rus
sian occupation of Manchurfa and New-ChWans
The question issue far grsve to }si use
heated language ABOUT russo 8re6 6e+ber there
Exists any chance of an International agreement
Russia to keep her word by the evacuation Of the
southern dVsons OF az bY been done is that
the British and Japanese ministers at PeKng fi
tude conducive to the success of Russia
g0y than ana any inhibited ipe Of Mach
In plain words, pressure on the Chinese executive
D Dr any I at al p' It et is sheer futty
There has been conference at washington esgotiator
of the famous secret treaty seven years ago, ana
is going to enunciate a forcible policy. But what
will be the practical outcome of this w2rGty mans
concerned? Little nothing Russia viii ,, glge
suis
SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
Very much ft,t the f same GP0nr he gogernnent has
been for time endeaVortng TO come 10 d sea,
Of the questions that affect our relations with that
are sad to be on the eve o. cbances of an
agreement about Persia and Central Asia by JON
t cRar? al has It any genuine CONVICTION that this
country ought to go to war on the suo3ecf eI
that 'the manifest destiny of that province Is TO
''The Tines calls this reasoning "fatalsm but
is merely calm anticpatton Of 6aseq non on
icy There may be any amount OF confr01e[sS anu
aTPatSh Mrtng but the situation VIII not De
There is. Of course, the more obscure possibility
of Japan taking action single handed, but this is
not probable Her people somewhat er1otlonai
m nnf t6e pr naia9esi a She nor likely
to attemPt the m fs 6asa T 0l te n9ury
Will satisfy her that America has no lntenuom OF
g &c 6g to war and that England does not wish
The protests of the powers made not, direct to
h
the Chinese Foreign Office. not likely to alter
I msndS mag be moded they may even be with
drawn But that will not alter the true position Oa
in possession, and all the protests in the world viii
h0s a Re9 hon If t Hp I he
moment to undertake Il Russia has put put heTse
that any promise she makes is yalueless JaPa1
before the Gulf Of Pechili Is again cebound Man
fa will be free Of the RqssaR scsdn we Wo sd be
possible. and ever probable but who expects great
THE DEATHBLow.
Failing such decision Russia's continued occu-
patton of Manchuria will go on gndsturbed II she
few miles 9e of Her ~ ocsls viii be 80 as 50 supreme
there Russian soil. No one else will have any
Bank will receive the dues of the customs and ac-
count for them TO the Russian Government or resi-
What will be the moral of this? 1t is one that
to the general position in China Russia's retention
Of Manchuria signifies deathblow to the policy OF
The loss of that important and valuable province
carries with IL so serious breach OF the integrity
of China that 1t becomes forthwith mere illusion
China minus Manchur1a and Mongolia. is no longer
the state that existed before the Boxer move
ment, which is the official formula for the integrity
Of China There is a valid to regard Shan
tung as already German subtraction from the
bend that France may detach her portion in the
phrase the integrity of China" would be finally
revealed by Russias retention of Manchuria, and,
as il is only too clear that she will retain it. 1t
follows that only conception of q sound policy
In China has been the repetition of a phrase that
never had much meaning, and now has none at all.
THE ONLY COURSE.
Under these circumstances there is only
course open to Facts, however unpleasant must
be recognized. and the policy of the open door
has to be declared failure. The only sensible
course left to is to fall back upon the aterna-
tive policy of the sphere of influence" which Lord
Russia has got her sphere in Manchuria- Other
powers have less surely acquired theirs else
where. II is time for to make certain of ours
in the Yangtse Valley. The first step in this direc-
ton is the occUpat ton of Chusan as of fut-
ure operations, and Australia should be invited to
begin her own imperial mission in the Far East by
contributing her quota TO the garrison of that ISL
and. Japan will at the same time occupy the place
that she deems necessary, whether in Corea or at
Foochow. or at both points. In this way alone
secure equivalent to RuSSa'S seizure or
ManchUria. ard lay the foundations Of the power
that Will bar the road to Russia when not content
to cross it. DEMETRIUS c. BOCLGER.