Is There Not A Laxer Tone Growing Among Us On
the subject of " loot "? We hear of it from China and from Ashanti, and always in words that indicate approval, and of grumbling because Lord Roberts sternly forbids it in South......
The Dominant Idea Among The Great Powers Seems To Be
that China must pay an indemnity for the attack on the Legations, that some kind of " security " not described is to he given against such attacks in the future, and then......
Broadly Speaking, There Has Been No Direct War News From
Pekin this week. A mass of snippety telegrams have arrived, but they tell us nothing except that the Empress-Regent and her Court are fast approaching Segan, that the victorious......
The Fate Of Pekin, Considering Its History, Is Rather A
melancholy one, even if it has been well deserved. It was three months ago, in the judgment of at least a fourth of mankind, the Imperial City of Asia; but to-day the Chinese......
News Of The Week.
T HE most important piece of news in regard to the Chinese crisis is that telegraphed from America to Friday's papers. It is to the effect that America is about to propose to......
