. Review of reviews and world's work. eprisals can have no encouragement either fromour government or from the public opinion ofour country. It is ext\emely unfortunate thatEuropean jealousies should have stood in the wayof a prompt release of the foreigners in Japanese, but for Russias reluctance to con-sent, might readily have sent a sufficient army toPeking to protect the diplomatic representativesof the different foreign nations. We publish elsewhere an excellentGeneral review of the Chinese crisis from theRemarks. ^^^^ ^^ ^^^, Stephen Bonsal, who rep-resented us some years ago

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. Review of reviews and world's work. eprisals can have no encouragement either fromour government or from the public opinion ofour country. It is ext\emely unfortunate thatEuropean jealousies should have stood in the wayof a prompt release of the foreigners in Japanese, but for Russias reluctance to con-sent, might readily have sent a sufficient army toPeking to protect the diplomatic representativesof the different foreign nations. We publish elsewhere an excellentGeneral review of the Chinese crisis from theRemarks. ^^^^ ^^ ^^^, Stephen Bonsal, who rep-resented us some years ago as first secretary oflegation and charge daffaires at Peking, andwho has exceptionally good knowledge of theproblems of tlie far East. The internationalsituation-, as we go to press, is too complicated aswell as too uncertain to justify the drawing ofconclusions this month. Happenings on the bor-der-line between Siberia and Chinas northernProvince of Manchuria are slirouded in obscurityas yet, and newspaper rumors must be :stti

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