2nd May. Stxcz the Chinese government extinguished the internal rebellions which caused such widespread anarchy in the reign of Hsien Feng, its policy has been to extend the number of provinces and change military for civil government wherever it was possible. "This has been done in Chinese Turkestan and in the Moukden province. In doing this, the object has been not to introduce a new system but to expand the area of the existing civil administration, The military commandant of Moukden was changed for a civil governor, So also Sin Keang, when conquered by Tso Tsung-tang, was reduced to a province to be ruled on the same principles as China proper. The Mahommedan rebellion there was crushed and Chinese rule re-established on a more secure basis than before. The Turkish and Persian Mahommedans cannot be permitted to separate themselves from Chinese control within the Chinese territory, any more than autonomy could be allowed to the Mahommedans in India or in Russia, The advantage
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