The really wise saw that the important thing was to determine the kind of education which China should receive, and in solving this problem the palm of wisdom must be given to the missionaries who represented the great Christian societies of Europe and America.

To small-minded statesmen it seemed that the situation called for conquest.

No nation was willing to be late at the division, if division it was to be; while if China was to awake, the European powers felt that she should awake shackled.

By no one was this latter view so clearly held as by the Kaiser.

With his accustomed versatility, he designed a cartoon showing the European powers, armed and with Germania in the forefront, confronting the yellow peril.