The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-02-24


But, after all, it was not that Chi
mas prowess had been overesti.
mated. Japan's simply had been
underestimated. In short, it was
the same old China which went
to war, but different, very diff.
ferent, Japan.
When Japan, flushed with vic.
tory and ANXIOUS to emulate the
example of the more liberal larg-
er nations in her peace settle
ment, suggested terms which
we're so generous that China nat
urally would have been delighted
to accept them, Russia coolly
stepped in and practically told
Japan that she should have moth
ing for her trouble. If she cared
to take Formosa, all well and
good, but the smallest piece of
the Chinese Mainland-never.
Russia professed to be acting in
the interest of the integrity of
the China empire, but she deceiv-
ed no one.
Japan was mad. She was ready
to fight and would have fought
right then and there had it not
been that at the head of her gov
ernment there were men thor
oughly equipped to hold their own
in diplomacy with the best Euro
pean masters Of tne cart of con-
cealing facts" These men de-
cided to blde their time, and ever
since Japan has been building
ships, ships, ships, until to-day
her navy, vessel for vessel, is the
peer of any in the world. She
has also paid a great deal of at
tention to her army, and, while
she does not keep under arms
very large body of men, those
which she has are soldiers IN ev-
cry sense of the word.
RUSSIA'S DUPLICITY.
Russla's disinterestedness W is
exposed when on the pretext of
''pacifyins" Manchuria she pour
ed 100000 men into that country
in 1900 and then after the war Of
the allied nations against China
contrived by every artitice known
to diplomacy to hold on to Man
churia. She had her railroad con
Meeting the Russian and Chinese
capitals and naturally she was
ANXIOUS TO hold on to the territory
it traversed. Since then, while
the local authorities have been
Chinese, they are merely under
lings of the Russian representa-
tives, to whom everything must
be reported.
Pressure, however, finally be-
came so strong and the other ma
tions so insistent for some ex-
pressions of Russia's ultimate IN
tentions concerning Manchuria
that Russia about year ago for
mally declared that she would get
out Oct. s, 1908. For that reason
the recent announcement that
she intended to remain in Man
churia practically permanently
sin the interest of outside enter
prlses" Ito say nothing of her
own railroads and the coal which
they need and which is found IN
abundance in the mines of Man
churia) came as thunderclap
from clear sky to the lew diplo-
matists who occasionally serious.
ly regard the utterances of the
cars government 1t was to be
expected that this should be de-
nounced as a canard, but it is
pretty well understood that the
statement was inspired and was
ISSUED as feeler. If 1t was de-
signed to produce results it dis.
appointed no one, for England,
Japan and the United States inn
medlately asked what it meant. -
Now Russia says she will get out
when she considers 1t safe to dc
so, but she also declaed at the
close of tho Chinese war that she
would soon evacuate Manchuria
Japan knew full well that Rus
sia would "cOnsider it safe" t.
get out of Manchuria concurrent
ly with the blowing of the large
horn by the angel Gabriel, and
, Russia knew that japan knew it,