One would much like to understand the precise position of
Count VO11 Weldersee within the German Empire.' He was sent to China with a grand flourish of trumpets, when there he was nominated ComMander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies, and now he has returned he is received with almost Royal honours, and talks in public of the. great feats he has per- formed. . What are the feats beyond sending 'little. ex- peditions to . punish small . Chinese . towns in the North for unproved assistance to invisible " Boxer " levies P in, said,. that Count von Waidersee is its succeed • Comrt. :von: Billow - a Chancellor, or. at the very' least is tube- Stadthelderi-of Alsace-Lorraine, and: as. the German Emperor does not give posts of - that kind to incom-* pethnt*, persons, -or persons- who 'brag,-the 'Count must liive done something great of which the world knows ',nothing: D:d he keep the peace among the Allies, or did he really draw up, as was reported, a feasible plan for the seizure of Sian, or is the root of it all the Emperor's gratitude to a clever officer who helps to conceal more perfectly the fact that the Chinese Expedition failed ? The Germans are asking these questions quite loudly, for, unlike the British, they are keenly interested in Cbinese affairs, and desire to see some definite result as compensation for their millions. That is mean, no doubt, but it is natural.
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