Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-01
SAYS CHINA
WILL FIGHT
RUSSIAN AUTHOR MAKES CURL
Gus PREDICTION
SAYS FLoWERY KINGDOM WILL
BECOME WORLD POWER
Expresses Belief That Entire World
VIII Some Day Be Ruled by
Only Six Different
Governments
snec,aI cable 10 The Herald.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 31.-The late
Prof. Mendeleyeff, one of the greatest
chemists that ever lived, took a deep in
terest in current history and wrote on it
with breadth of view, an enthusiasm
an insight and style which would have
made the author remarkable even II ne
had not been a prince of scientists. His
Knowledge of Russia" is a book which
no student of Russian politics can ignore,
but his posthumous work Gust pub
lished). entitled supplement to the
knowledge of Russia" is in some re-
spects an even more striking produc-
tion.
Some of the statements contained IN IL
are refreshingly original. He declares
for instance that one of the causes
which will eventually lead to regener-
ated China attacking Europe, will be the
preponderance of males over females In
the Celestial kingdom, while in Europe
there is a preponderance of females over
males ''This,' he continues, rs the gen.
eral law for all Asia. In India alone the
women are 100000 souls less numerous
than the men. The story of the Rape
of the Sabines may yet be repeated on
an overpowering grandiose scale"
Mendeleyeff does not think, however,
that China will first attack Russia-as
one would naturally suppose. He thinks
that she will increase her empire toward
1.-THE south and menace India. while Japan's
tendencies will be also southwark, toward
Indo-China and Australia. The author
draws an interesting parallel between
China and Russia, both spread over an
enormous land area, both with great pop
ulation, and (most important OF alD potn
with very rapid birth rate. The dense
ness of the population alone would final
ly force the Chinese to burst out over
their frontiers, for there are in the Middle
Kingdom 100000 inhabitants, that Is
one person to every 2.70 acres, and In
some places one person to less than an
acre. .,
The professor hopes that Russia Will
take advantage of her peculiar position,
half Europe, half Asiatic, to unite Eu-
rope and Asia.
Proud of Russia
The admiration of Professor Mendeie-
yeff for his own country-"the Central
Empire. the path of the great migrations
of the neopies"-is sincere. What the
aged scientist seems to be proudest OF In
Russia is her enormous population ana
wonderful birth rate.
He points out that the strength of the
Western European powers Is deceptive
il judged from the population, Tor very
large proportion of that population con-
sists of alien races. The British Umpire,
100O0.00O. France of 100000, Germany
"a. 900 900. but without her colonies France
has only $4,000, 900, England 440O0,oOO. Ger
many 81 100000 Again, the births In
these countries are not much In excess
| of the deaths, being annually In France
/ $4,000, in England 394, 600, and In Germany
S36, 900, whereas in the United States tney
are 1,720,OOO, In Russia 2,2300O0, that is,
9O0. 600 greater than England, Germany
/ folr
higher still. The fact that Russia's pop
ulation increases at the rate of IL per
| cent yearly, or doubles in fifty years,
accounts, in the authors opinion, for the
| rapid occupation of all the unoccupied
| land in the empire and for the collisions
| with foreign nations.
| Prof Mendeleyeff does net believe IN
| one world empire, but he thinks that the
| small states will all in the course of time
| be annihilated or fused into other states.
He foretells that the result will be six
| world powers holding sway over more
| than two-thirds of the inhabitants and OF
| the inhabited land on the surface of the
globe-Russia, Germany, France, England,
the United States and China. He does
not think Japan will be great world
power, because she does not belong to
the Originator powers;" she is "an imi-
tator;'' her only chance of erlarging her
empire is TO annex ouus anu enus VI
land that other nations had overlooked
or to enter on a desperate struggle with
the celestial powers.
"If Japan chooses the latter course
union of these great powers will be
formed against her. Unhappily for Japan,
the day of durable military successes Is
past forever. Japan is too small. The
order and peace of the world can only
be guaranteed by an agreement among
the six originator powers"
Before laughing at these prophecies 1t
would be well to remember that these
Muscovite mystics have more than once
guessed right Solovyov, for example.
the famous theologian and mystic, cor
rectely predicted the Russo-Japanese war
at time when the idea of such war
seemed as ridiculous as any Of these later
prophecies of Mendeleyeff.