'VU—The Gradual Encroachment of Russians and Chinese in the North West: 'A Meeting Place of Past and Future: What the Manchus Achieved From 4 Srectat Kalgan of, the nomad Mongols followed One of the most extraordinary naturally on the establishment of things about the Chinese people is firm rule in China proper by the the way they have established such Manchus. I: went on slowly but a homogeneity of race, character {steadily almost to the end of the] and coiture, from the mountaina of three centuries of the Ta Ch'ing Yunnan tothe wheatlands of Man-dominion. 'Then the advance of and the gorges of the Tib-Russia into Asia, being turned eton frontier to the gorges of the back from the gates of the Yangtze, in spite of a confusion of Mediterranean by the Crimean de-Gialects,' a paucity of communica-Vfeat, altered the whole nature of Chine's Mongolian border. From far-away Khiva and Kokhand all from Kalgan to Paotow, one sees along through the heart of Asia to the racial tide advancing into new Port Arthur the Russians were territory in a way that can only pressing Eastward, For two genera-be compared to the trans fo tions they were halted just short of of the American West by the influx Kashgar and would surely have "of the white peoples.
Behind the! joceupied it had he Chinese not been tiers 1s the railway, along which backed by a friendly British power are huge deposits of coal for in-! in India, During "the revolt of Gustrial power, and along which Yakub Khan and the Mohammedan are already being built flour mills to deal with the now harvests,
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