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0106 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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for seventeen years, and who had performed
the greatest services to all civilised nations by
introducing the first railway into China. Lastly,
she puts such pressure on the Chinese, that,
though this same Chinese railway company
were in the act of ordering the necessary
railway plant and materials from an English
firm, under Russian threats these orders were
never given; when the Company wanted to
borrow money from an English bank, she
actually went the length of threatening to
annex a Chinese province as "compensation"!

If we may judge then from the recent
experiences of our minister at Peking, from the
experience of other British representatives in
different parts of Asia, and, I may add, from
my own experiences, we may expect that the
Russian agents on this spot will in the future,
as in the past, deliberately set themselves, by
open means or underhand, by hook or by crook
to undermine British influence, to check the
spread of British commerce, and to crush out
British trade wherever that is possible. Per-
sonally and individually, Russians are the most
charming people in the world. In spite of their
reputation for prevarication they are frank and