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0108 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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remove our ships from it before it was even
theirs, and of their then walking into it in the
face of a powerful British fleet, seems astounding
beyond all expression.

With these facts before us, we cannot doubt
that our rights *are* threatened, and that if
some period is not put to the tide of Russian
aggressiveness, all our privileges in Manchuria
will be swept away. We may still enjoy those
indirect advantages which the substitution of
Russian for Chinese civilisation in Manchuria
will bring about, just as we enjoy certain ad-
vantages from the substitution of Russian for
Turkish rule in Batoum. But we will not enjoy
the full advantages to which we are entitled. If
the Russians continue to hold the same ideas of
expansion, and to carry them out with the same
audacity and determination as heretofore, in a
score or so of years Manchuria will be absorbed
by Russia, and British trade will be excluded.

And what if it is? some will say. After all,
our trade with Manchuria never will be more
than a small fraction of the total trade of the
British Empire, and would it be worth while
for the preservation of that to run the risk of a
war with Russia?