altogether that it will be guided by Japan or that
it will be aggressive, but admits that it is intended to form a new Army and Navy for defence. The Empress, he says, has accepted the idea that the Empire must be "Europeanised," and there are already two hundred and seventy Chinese students of Euro- pean ideas who will hereafter hold high positions as advisers of the Crown. He thought that the whole Empire would be thrown open to trade, but that as soon as reformed laws were promulgated and reformed tribunals set up the Europeans must surrender their privilege of extra-territoriality, which was exceedingly disliked in China. He advises all Europeans, including missionaries, to be more moderate and respectful of traditions in their intercourse with Chinese, and mentions that a Prince of the Blood is already on his way West, charged to inform both France and Great Britain of the terms upon which China will offer her friendship and certain economic advantages. It is pretty clear that whether Japan guides China or not, it is by the Japanese example that the rulers in Pekin expect to profit. They are training " advisers " exactly as the Japanese did, and their test question with Europe is evidently to be the abolition of the Capitulations, which gall their pride and impede their official action.
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