Peking, Aug. 14.
The following is the third instalment of the report of the Special Commission of Advisers to to the Chinese Government on conditions in the North East Frontier Provinces and in Eastern Siberia The creation of the buffer State was undertaken by Russians for a double reason: it was both politically and e economically From the political standpoint it was held necessary to establish in Eastern Siberia, where the rural population is not Communist, a government based on universal suffrage and ordinary property rights, and of such a nature as not to arouse the apprehensions of the two neighbouring governments of China and Japan.
From the economic standpoint it was deeuied just as essential to develop the commercial relations between Eastern Siberia and foreign lands, and to facilitate by such a scheme the importation of foodstuffs and manufactures, which in this way might to reach central and western Siberia and even Russia.
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