The martial resources of China are not yet developed, but that astute
people have hit upon another plan to conquer and hold that which they
regard as their own. A current news item from that country says:
China’s chief method of recovering Manchuria is to overrun it
with emigrants from the congested mother country, and this plan
has worked so well that already Japanese newspapers complain
that the Japanese are losing both trade and ground there. Soon
after the peace of Portsmouth the Chinese government contributed
two million taels for emigration; free transportation began, at
the beginning of the year, and in the spring months following
as many as three thousand to four thousand coolies got off the
train at Harbin daily. The Russians, who, before the war,
considered themselves masters of the northern regions, are
realizing that they are being crowded out altogether.
This is a suggestion of the peaceful but powerful forces that are at
work in changing the map of the world.
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