The Integrity of China.

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 15, 22 November 1904, Page 3

The Integrity of China.

The complete success of Secretary Hay’s effort to “localize within as small area as possible the hostilities in the Far East,, and to insure over as much as possible of China her neutrality,” is not only a noteworthy diplomatic victory for the United States, but constitutes perhaps the most important event since the outbreak of hostilities. The formal approval of Secretary Hay’s plan which has now been secured from all the great Europoan Powers, and the tacit consent of both Russia and Japan, leaves China as tho only probable menace to its success. The Government of that country has at all times been more or less under foreign influence, while the populace is liable at any moment to get beyond the control of the Government and commit acts which will gravely imperil, if they do not destroy, the continuance of Chinese neutrality. Against, such factors as these no diplomacy, however far-sighted, can guard, but the Foreign Ministers of all the great Powers can certainly feel that they have at least done all in their power to localize the conflict in tho Far East and reduce to a minimum the danger of involving in it other nations than the present belligerents.—Hun’s Review.”