Enlarging on the Japanese motives, these may have been inspired by a desire to extend the railway domination of South Manchuria as represented by the South Manchuria Railw.y. This previous crossings, but in spite of this th eto the Russo-Japanese war formed total bridging for the whole length does not exceed 30 miles, which ; part of the Chinese Eastern Rail-Way which extended from Harbin seems to indicate that economy was South to Port Arthur and from
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