Excerpt from The Literary Digest, Vol. 16: A Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research, as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World; January, 1898, to June, 1898 To the well-informed at Peking it was known in 1895 that Rus sia had promised the reigning family in China to maintain them on the throne and to preserve their empire. The most ominous feature of the present crisis for China is that this engagement seems to have been repudiated, and Germany must have acted with the assured consent of Russia and France. England will not interfere in the program of these three powers. In China she has receded before French and Russian aggression from every stand that the English press has asserted that she would take. It has always been China, never the aggressor, that has been called to indemnify when some fresh encroachment has seemed to menace British interests, and in every case Great Britain has been content to accept some grant to herself to balance the grants to others. The effect of this movement on China is not difficult to state. Her autonomy is gravely menaced, perhaps lost forever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.