RUSSIANIZING CHINA

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · May 3, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 18.

RUSSIANIZING CHINA.

RUSSIA is not only encouraging the early disintegration of the Chinese Empire, but assumes that that event has practically taken place. While diplomatically treating with the Chinese Government, Russia has taken possession of a large portion of Chinese territory, and is governing it as it does its own territory.

A correspondent of the North China News gives some remarkable information regarding the Russian progress in Manchuria. Russians in Manchuria are acquiring land as they please and are already working mines. The railroad is obviously a military one, and there are 30,000 Russian troops at Port Arthur, 3,000 at Talienwan, 2,000 at Kinchou, 200 at Lunchou, 200 at Wafanglien, 200 at Newchwang, 200 at Haichieng, 200 at Liaoyang, 300 at Kirin, 20,000 at Haipion, north of Kirin, and, in fact, Russian soldiers are all over Manchuria. In Haichieng the Russians have taken a shop and fortified it by mounting guns. At Liaoyang they have a site 200 yards square, where they are building barracks. At Kirin they have possession of the Chinese barracks, and 300 soldiers, with 20 officers and mining engineers, are quartered there. Visitors to the locality can not move without being shadowed by Russians. At Haipion, where the railway will branch off from the main line to Vladivostok, there are Russian settlements with 20,000 soldiers.—Selected.