IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
| 天の間で : vol.1 |
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引用情報
78 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. IV.
trade was in the hands of British merchants,
and the only Russian we ever heard of was an
escaped convict from Siberia. The Russians
were then very reasonably in some dread of
the Chinese, and especially of a combination
of Chinese land-power with British sea-power ;
for the only line of communication the Russians
had lay along the actual frontier, and was
exposed to attack for hundreds of miles, while
the railway was at that time thousands of miles
distant. The Russians for years had had the
right to navigate the Sungari River, but had
never exercised it, chiefly through fear of the
Chinese. Their commercial interests in Man-
churia were absolutely nil, and their thoughts
at that time were chiefly centred in endeavour-
ing to secure the strip of sea-coast, including
Vladivostok, which they had already filched
from China.
Now all is changed. They have engineers
in every part of Manchuria. They have hun-
dreds of soldiers as escort to those engi-
neers. They are constructing railways through
the land. And they have organised a fleet for
the navigation of the inland waters. To all
this we have no possible need to raise objection.
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