Lord Wolseley on China
•— -"The Chinese," people said Lord ~"W6lßeleyj "are the coining nation. "The Chinese will I think, overrun the -world. The battle of Armageddon will take place . between, the Chinese • and the English-speaking raeesi There -will, be I another war be r tween France and Germany, and it - will be about the bloodiest war which we have seenin Europe. But, some day, a great general or lawgiver will arise in China, and the Chinese, who have been motionless for three centuries, will: begin to progress. They will take to the profession of arms, and ttiehthey will hurl themselves upon the Russian Empire. Before the Chinese annies — as they possess every military virtue, are stolidly indifferent to death, and capable of inexhaustible endurance— the Russians will go down. Then the Chinese armies will march westward. They wilj overrun India, sweeping us into the sea, Asia will belong to them and then, at last, English, Americans, Australians, wilt-have to rally fora -last desperate conflict. So certain do X regard this that I think one fixed point of our policy should be tp strain every nerve and make every sacrifice to keep on good terms with China. China is the coming Power."
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 64, 15 November 1890, Page 4
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