The Outbreak In China: Its Causes (1900) - Tapa blanda

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Introduction RECENTLY the eyes of the world have been directed toward China as never before. The unprecedented anti-foreign uprising has taken us by surprise, arid found us at first quite unprepared to cope with it. All great cataclysmal catastrophes, however, are the result of forces that have been silently and secretly at work. So is it with this eruption inC hina. The missionaries, who live in closest touch with the people, and hence naturally know the temper of their minds, had been predicting for a long time that we were on the eve of the outburst of a mighty conflagration. The North China Daily News, the leading paper of theE ast, also read aright the signs of the times, and uttered many warnings as to what might be expected.
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