RUSSIA AND CHINA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10169, 20 February 1911, Page 5

RUSSIA AND CHINA.

CHINA'S NATIONAL^SPIRIT

TROOPS SENT TO THE FRONTIER

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)

PETERSBURG, February 18. Troops from Tathkent have started for the Chinese frontier. LONDON, February 17. The Times says that a conspicuous feature in the affairs of China is' the growth of a national spirit, which is in the nature of a reaction against a corrupt bureaucracy that is impotent to resist foreign encroachments. .The step taken by Russia may possibly provoke an explosion of public feeling ending in a revolution. The Daily Graphic says that Russian action with regard to IK is the result of the Potsdam agreement between Germany and Russia. It is difficult, the paper adds, to find more cynical disregard for international law and morality. China punctually and scrupulously observed the conditions of the 1881 treaty. It will be interesting to see what Mr Asquitli and Sir Edward Grey will say in view of the principles laid down in connection with Bosnia. The Westminster Gazette says the tone of the Russian Note assumes that China is uncivilised. It would be inconceivable that a European Power treat Japan similarly.