But this is not to saythat quick, ready and ample
help ust not be provided for-those who are in' danger. This an obvious duty, and we may feel sure it will not be egleeted. -Those Chinese who are beleaguering the reigners in the Hankow Concessions and may soon be reateriing their lives are breaking their pledges to cry one of the Powers. What is wanted more urgently than anything else is a common policy among the Powers At present the Chinese notice that there is Very little resistance to their anti-foreign movement, and they deceive themselves into believing that foreign countries are either impotent or afraid. The truth is that since the Peking fiasco the Powers have felt too bewildered and too depressed by the failure of their well-meaning efforts to substitute any fresh policy. The situation should now be reviewed with a perfectly open mind. * *
