The World-Problem

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1900

The World-Problem.

The allied armies entered Peking, August 15, and delivered all the legationers. And now there will begin among the Powers themselves what is acknowledged to be “a war of diplomacy, if not of blood and steel.” And that it will not speedily be a war of blood and steel, is by no means certain; since against the vigorous protest of the consuls of the United States and Russia, Britain landed two thousand five hundred troops at Shanghai, August 18. It has been “practically decided,” at Washington, that the American army will remain in China “until the Chinese enter into convention to pay all indemnities accruing by reason of the Boxer rebellion;” and “until the disorders in all the provinces are quelled.” And that is practically to decide that they shall stay there forever.