It is reported from Kirin (Central Manchuria) that a number of mining engineers,—accompanied a numerous gang of mining overseers, artisans and minors of the same nationality, have arrived at Tsitsihar, the capital of Heilungehiang province (Northern Manchuria), and are only waiting for the consent of the Chinese Central Government—to be coerced out of the latter by the Russian Minister at Peking—to commence operations immediately on the Amur gold" bearing districts, which had already been prospected and staked out by the Russians in 1900 soon aiter the taking of Tsitsihar by the Russians that year.
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