AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 17 September 1900, Page 2

AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT.

. . SYDNEY, September 15. t Mr A. W. Bpst, who spent 20 years in China, fourteen of whiclras a Chinese official, declares that the sending of a large German fleet to China and a formidable arm is to enable the Emperor of Germany to speak with a mailed fist to the Czar. He considers that it is absolutely necessary for Germany to occupy North China. Her existence and future depend on it. Manchuria is already seized by Russia, am! Mongolia will -probably foliow. The i ext step is Pekin. To talk of building up a strong China is like trying to build % House with straw. The only practicable settlement is for some strong Power to occupy the north, and keep Russia out. ,'ireat Britain does not want it. There -s oils Power that can do it, aiid that k Goi" many, with the moral support of the othei' Powers, especially that of Great iVitaid, Tf Russia holds the north, Northern Obll «• men, who are strong and able, need only to be trained by expert Russians and properly armed to. become,' by me.vis (pf tl-< Siberian railway, an actual menace tc Europe. If Russia declared war in Europe, Germany would have to bear Uie l-.uiit of the attack, while Russian trirops could bo held in reserve. The German Emperor lecognised the danger some two or three years, ago. ad spoke to Prince Hem-y ou the subject.