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AIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1912.

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· TAR-RÈAQUING PROBLEMS,

THE CHINA MAIL.

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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Atlas

Bramble

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and the Chinese forces withdrawn than Pegasus they repeated their former tactics.

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result of these preliminary, negotiations,

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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

Welland anid to have numberedeno less than 100

being used to transport this vast host; persons, 4.000 esmols and 15.000 hostes

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Hongkong, April 30, 1918,

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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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