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regions, reopened the old question. In spite. of sharp diplomatie; protests. frems tha Chinese, a Bussian, town, destined to enjoy much repute, named. Albazin, was founded or the upper reaches of the Amur, and served as a focus for all these
Name
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For the Bussian official view as it Anda pioneering activitio. Steadily pursuing expression in Monsieur Sazonoff's speech policy of both forestal and pacife pere (losving aside the question of possible tration, the Russians in spite of all diplo Britomart Machiavellism is surely too narrow and matic protests, gradually re-established Cadmus too short-sighted. It igacres or at themasives along the entire course of the Cherab tempts to ignore the tremendous con-Amur, and in the righties of the seren- Olia sequence of what took place in the teenth century were once again in Arm Defence viuinity of Tsushima. It treats the ques
occupation of many strategio połaty.
Fame The Chinese wore, now so seriously on tion of the Mongolian frontier as if that
alarmed that they determined upon ex- question could be localised-detached
The new dynasty was
Handy from all other questions of the Far East rome measures.
firmly established in Poking: the last Janus —wherous, what happens in Crys and in the whele vast stretch of territory known Ming resistance in the provinces had long Brok as Northern Mongolia, which reschen disappeared; the Chinese were so faith-Kinsha from Chinese Turkestan to the great troubles were the only cloud in the hori-Minotaur ✦
fully obedient that the Russian frontier Merlin RESTAURANTS in Manchurian province of Heilungehiang.
has an immediate effect as far as the Sea bering many thousands of men advanced
∙son. 'Farly in 1883 & Manchu best man- Monmouth of Japan, immediately demanding count-
Moorhen on Albazin. Intimidated by this display er moves, immediately provipitating frosli
Nowcastle Carlton, Ritz, Savoy, crises, immediately blackening the out
of force, the Russians gave way and
Nightinga look, precisely as the moves and counter-grood to evacuate the country: but no moves around Constantinople and the souer had an arrangement been made Otter
and the Chinese forces withdrawn than Pegasus they repeated their former tactics.
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mean o dry-us-dust discussion, in terms of the ordinary textbook. but that more romantic method which makes the chronicles of nations pleasing narrative. the rival capitals of Poking and Moscow, Thistle BLUE BLACK, SCARLET AND CHECKING INKS, The history of the contact between themet in the town of Nerchinsk in 1868. Cak
The pomratous character of these nego Virago tiations may be gauged from the com- Waterwitch position of the Chinese Embassy; it is
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being used to transport this vast host; persons, 4.000 esmols and 15.000 hostes
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THE WISE
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DEAD MURDERERS,
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Lt. Comdr. J. R. A. Codrington
Lt. Comdr.. Woodward
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Flagship of Vice Admiral Alfred I. Winslos, K.C.B., C.V.O., C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief.
New York, Aug. 15, "A murderer's body," wrote the New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph,must not be exhibited for advertising purposes and cush pavements.
RUSSIA'S EASTWAku maten,
and ought to be buried iramediately." This decree, which was issued last night The Russians crossed the Trat moun- ains towards the end of the fifteenth by the Health Department of New York, contary. In 1587 they icmaled Tobolsk: relates to the remains of five of the six Italians who were electrocuted, na dese in 1604, Tomsk 1619, Yeneseisk; int
tribed in the Daily Telegraph, and 1632, Yakotak: and. fnally, in 1838. Okhotsk. on the frozen Pacific Ocean. Las brought dismay to a firm of foreign
Eng and description. The first lini of Russia's irresistible ad-undertakers, who had acquired the bodies vonce towards the Pacific followed - vény
from the prison on the plex that they northerly latitudes, indeed, mid left the represented the relation, and desired to Kaiser Franz Joseph I Austro-Hungarian cruiser Baikal and Amur regions far to the south.give the corpses ceremonial burial.
Nome.
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All the towns of Eastern Siberin named "Apparently the electrocuted men had no Dupleix † above tie between latitude ader and relatives in, America, and the undertakers, Kleber 65der.: the great ranges of the Tablonci admittedly for the sake of advertisement and Stanoroi mountains are interposed and to secure the cost of the burini. Decidée, hetween them and the Faikid-Amur rearranged a grim exhibition, to which teas Argus gians,
of thousands of morbid people, chiefly
Vigilante It was not long, lowever, before the Italians, flocked throughout yesterday, adventurous Cossacks, daseerutants of somo remaining in line nearly an hour to Peiho Termak, to whose sergiow this remark-get a glitope of the dead criminals, who Dondard de Lagree able expansionist movement sheer crosslie in stata side by side in the amiertaker's Asia had been due, ward of richer and cellar. No charge was made, but plates at more desirable lands lying further to the the feet of the corpses invited donation", south. Wild tales, of peoples tilling tho and mpany were given. soil and possessing gold and silver were carried to them by the nomads, who, cringing their feet, and, offering to them the skins of the sable and the bear
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Lynx Sometimes the crowd was so dense that Protee two men were required to keep the people Styx. in lino. "Don't rush! Keep coal and you'll all have a chance," shouted a junior marker of the undertakers' bro. The d'Iberville I rid them of such marauders. The tna latter complained bitterly when informed Pistolet
gination of these Cossacks was, indeed that the bodies must be buried to-day. so fired, that it was merely a question of ***I was doing the best I could for these Mousquet fine for them to be drawn southwards, fellows," he asserted, indicating the ghast. Mancho just as the needle is drawn to the magne-ly relics with aware of the head. "AI I the north. The first expeditions erasse want out of it is an advertisement. If the the watershed separating the northern exhibition could have lasted until Saturday settlements from the Amur almost pro- they could have had elegant, caskets
* Magship of Cant, (Commodore Boucicut Commenting iba kowal dalamos Turin (Thins
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Scharnhorst rivers, in almost precisely the same way The undertaker's attitude was that of a 8.90 the French and the English did in legitimate showman, whose profitable Taka America a few decades later, the struggle enterprise had been unjustly prohibited - in both cases being round the waterways Ba wan utterly at a loss to see in what way Tsingtau
Tiger The first Cossack expeditions did not his exhibition could offend public decency. Vaterland accomplish much, save to spy out the Had the exhibition heen allowed to
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It was not until '1650.that Khabarof, a The Italian colony, which, chiefly wealthy Siberian, whose name has been patronised, the exhibition, rather symp. A.2 preserved in the capital of the maritime athised with the undertaker. Many A province of Eastern Siberia, undertook asserted that a rival undertaker had been the subjugation of the newly-discovered permitted to exhibit the body of a Black territories. Reaching the Amur River, Hand murderer for twelve days before A-T
Albany and destroying whatever native resistance shipping it to Italy for bariai. he encountered, in 1631 he collided for the first time with the authority of China. Fifty Man hu horsemen, sent by a fan- churian governor to collect tribute, m the Russian adventurers in battle, 50t fared no better than the native Tungus, They were driven ifto igncinious re treat and then hunted down. Poking at last, apprised of what was taking place is this frontier zone, quickly reinforced. the frontier guards, and for many days, s frontier warfare was waged with varying success. Sometimes, the Bulan pletely surprised the Chinese forces, and scenes of slaughter were witnessed which are eloquently described in rodo, chroni cles. But a 1656 a large Manchu force. coming down the Bunguri River In boats, surrounded wad destroyed the
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