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Show EXPEDITION TO MONGOLIA. Russians Have Scheme to Grab Part of the Orient. St. Petersburg. Later developments Incrcaso tho lmportanco of tho Russian Rus-sian expedition to Mongolia under Colonel Novltsky, which io to leavo St. Petersburg the mlddlo of Mny to survoy tho hitherto unexplored region botwocn tho Manchurlnn frontier nnd Urga. It Is now announced thnt tho expedition will consist ot not less than sixty officers, and that Its first work will bo to mnko further surveys for a railroad from Klakhta to Kalgan and another routo from Urga to Klrln by which tho eastern region of Mongolia will bo thoroughly surveyed. |