| Show I liln ii of Manchuria In view vie of th announcIng Ing ng that thai Russia Husla Is renewing her aggressions rug rug- ag ag- In iii China the change change In military mJ- mJ mili mill- ha haa has hasa tary commanders in th the tho far fn east a tar significance Gen Grod who thio succeeds Gen Gemi Is the Iho same who was governor of the Amur AmuI region and amid wa nucIa Russia's instrument In the lie conquest of oC Manchuria in iii 1000 1900 Bv his' ly of reason of or his merciless slaughter helpless and amid innocent Chinese men women and arid children in that sO- sO so called lcd de descriptive tie tie- campaign he earned the aptly t- t Tobe To Tobe Tobe title tte of or the butcher be thus set sol apart In a country where ferocity and heartlessnesS are arc aron among the distinguishing and amid essential cental characteristics characteristics char char- Grod- Grod of oC military governors GIO ekoff must have hO committed some frightful enormities And there Is no question queston he did ld Only a part of oC what he and his semi savage age 1 soldiery did dil dilIs didIs Is known to the tue outside world His order In iii the conquest declared I ly iy to be a campaign a against brigandage brigand brigand- age In Manchuria was kill ki and ani spare not and it I was obeyed with wih such literalness that afterward oven even tho ho oren arc shameless adventurers then governing govern govern- overn- overn lag ing Ing Russia caused It to be he reported that had been cashiered co and hal later committed suicide That an officer with wih such an n evil il c 1 reputation should now bo he elevated to lo the supreme military command in the far tar cast justifies the suspicion that lint a campaign similar to that In Manchuria is about to be waged in Mongolia and anti Chinese Turkestan The remoteness and Inaccessibility Inac mac of Manchuria with those means of enforcing silence Russia Rusia so sowell sowell well wel knows 1 how to apply kept concealed con con- the thc horrors honors and amid atrocities committed com corn b by until the conquest t toC of oC the time province was practically com corn Even more remote so IW far Car as w- w the rest of the world Is concerned but hut better beter situated geographically forRU for RU Russia's sla de designs are arc Mongolia lon oJa an anTu and amid Tu Turkestan And Anti what her designs arc are seem at present somewhat mystifying It I maybe may maybe maybo be bo another effort efort to secure that ice- ice free CIce port of which she has so many times been balked The TIme Russo Chin ese Batik Bank which Is actually only an an- another another other name namo for Cor oi the Rus Russian lan government government govern govern- ment claims to hold 1011 holl a concession for tor fora tora a railroad from through Mongolia Mongolia Mon Ion golia ola to Lake Baikal in Siberia Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps Russia Husla is figuring on an uprising uprising ing InS with wih a possible breaking up or 01 dismemberment o of the Chinese em em- pire fire If I such a thing Is imminent or 01 remote Russia may be lC depended upon to lo foment I it and anti In fn the collapse take whatever may be bo to her advantage Pekin Is not tam far from flom the gulf ulf of or Pe- Pe Chi Li and amid if Ir that reputed railroad concession from Lake Baikal exists the lie extension of the railroad when built buit from to tho the cost cot would be an Insignificant un undertaking ng With such a railroad In operation Russia Hussla would have ha e reached her long sought goal and anti the loss 1083 of Port Arthur would be more mom th than n made good She would have ha c an actual rc free fee free port OIt which Port Arthur was wa not mint and anti she would have access aceR to a u sea open the Uw year cal round by a line himme lne GOO COO miles shorter than the route by hy way imay of Harbin and lie tho th Tung Llao-Tung peninsula peninsula peninsula- If I this timis Is the time aim of or Russia's policy in China she apparent apparently is following the tho Identical methods she pursued In seizing Man lan lanch ch churia churla In Iii Mongolia as ns there her diplomatic agents seek seck concessions secretly at Pekin and amid as soon as a they are secured troops are poured Into the Ott the tho pretext of protecting tho those hoc e conc concessions ions ul fl the the tho Russian Ian consular a agents Tle next step l f Is the appointment of a military commander command er of the type It I remains to be seen whether the tho parallel will wi be carried further Foresight is not mint nota minta a conspicuously pre-eminent pre quality of oC tho those e now responsible for or Russia's foreign or domestic policy It I may many not mint need a Japan to check the tho Muscovite Musco ie advance and aggression in Mongolia B By the time time Russia usla Is financially able ablo 0 to pre press s aggressively g re Iely her designs upon the celestial celestal empire which she will ivill wi scarcely be read ready to for man many years ears eals yet she timid find may many an awakened Chum China confronting her tumid and quite prepared to take care of arid and defend her own In iii- iii crests Should China fail it is nut not l likely Japan with so many vital in iii- iii crests at stake will watch complacently compla time the approach of a foe ime- ime from froni defeat and amid anxious for re i-c- i Utica N. 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