The Progress of the World. 



555 



A Market Scene Under the Walls of Peking. 



[J^rcorti I'rrsa. 



The Trouble 



In 



Persia. 



(houglit that has been so liberally poured into the 

 old bottles of the Manchu Empire is producing tin 

 natural result. Few prophesies seem to be safer than 

 that some millions of Chinese lives will be sacrificed 

 liefore the New China is as firmly established as the 

 Old China, of which it claims to be the heir. 



The demand which Russia has 

 made for the dismissal of Mr. 

 Shuster, the American Treasurer- 

 Ceneral, is one which ought \o 

 havo proceeded from both Russia and ICngland. Mr. 

 Shuster may be as able a man as he is masterful, i)iit 

 he seems to have set himself from his first appoint- 

 ment to break down llie Anglo-Russian entente on 

 which the peace of Asia, and incidentally the con- 

 tinued existence of Persia, depends. He set abom 

 this work in the most dangerous way, by appointing 

 the most Russophobe Englishmen he could find t.> 

 positions of authority in the sphere of influence in 

 Xorihcrn Persia, from which British influence i. 

 exi-.luded, as a condition of the exclusion of Ru.ssian 

 influence from Southern Persia. Against this intrusion 

 of British officials into Northern Persia Russia 

 made exactly the same protest as we should have 

 made if Russian ollicials had been appointed in 

 Southtrn Persia. L.ngland loyally supported that 



rUol,igriifkojr\ [ll'fff. 



Wu Ting:- Fang, 



The new Chinese SccreLiry for Korcij^n AlV.iirs, and formerly 



Chinese Minister at Washington. 



