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Show The Japanese to Study Russian. It speaks volumes for the marvelous rapidity and intensity with which the Russian influence is encompassing all the countries, nations and governments of Asia that the Japanese government has introduced into the house of congress con-gress a bill making the Russian language lan-guage a branch 6f instruction obligatory obliga-tory upon the schools of the land. By admitting the language of the Russian empire as next in importance to their native tongue, the Japanese practically recognize their intercourse with Russia to be the most important of their international inter-national relations. The government of Japan, says the Novoe Vremya, intend to engage natives of Russia to teach their language at the public schools. |