China’s Potential to Overrun the World
LONDON, June 30.—Lord Wolseley, in an interview published this morning, says: “China possesses every requisite for overrunning the world. She has a population of four hundred million, all speaking the same language, or dialects readily understood from one end of the empire to the other. She has enormously developed wealth, and still more enormous natural wealth awaiting development. Her men, if properly drilled and led, are admirable soldiers. They are plucky, and able to live on next to nothing. Moreover, they are absolutely fearless of death. Begin with the foundation of millions upon millions of such soldiers as these men are capable of being made, and tell me, if you can, where the end will be.”