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Show H RUSSIA'S LATEST EXPANSION. H , . . $ "When Russia gains a mastery over Persia and places Mongolia LL under the rule of the Bear, the dominion of the Czar shall be M strengthened at Iwo very important points. Persia extends to the H Persian -Gulf and the C-hilf of Oman, which would give Russia a Hj trategical naval base on the Arabian Sea and near the Indian H Ocean. Russia's only southern naval point is on the Black Sea; Hn which is blocked by the treaty excluding Russian men-of-war from H passing through the Dardanelles. H Mongolia is that part of Northern China which borders on LL Siberiar "Were that vast territory a part of Russia, a new and bet- 1 tor route for the Siberian railroad to Vladivostock, the eastern ter- Hi minus, would be available. H Russia now has 130,000,000 people. "With the carrying out of j its present policy of aggrandizement, the population would be al- H most double that of the United States. But vast as Russia is in H population and area, in all the essentials of peace and happiness the LL nation is miserably small and weak. |