A Peking dispatch states that. owing the desire of Governor P'an Hsiao ssu, of Chinese Turkestan, to obtain a loan of two million taels for the reorganisation of the territorial army of that province, the Waiwupt has obtained a loan fr that amount from the Russo-Chinee Bank. " without interest." The ' consideration" being that whenever the Chinese authorities of Turestan desire to open mines or cultivate new tracts of country now lying fallow in that province, only Russians should be engaged an! no others to assist and teach the Chinese.
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