The Archive · 1899

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British enterprise la Manchurix. It ts a well-known fact that the Russians have obtained the right to work mines, establish maiufactorier and generally open up the province,—subject, of course, to the "permission" of the Native suthorities,—a Have - stand army in the province and urely gratuitous clause, seeing that they dictate to the local magnates. We have so far been unable to leora whether their right of priority is limited to 30 & or 30 miles on either side of the railway line, whether it exists at all, or whether there is any limit: whatever to the said right of priority. Is the favoured nation clause entirely set aside?

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