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Chapter I.

How North-China became Militarized.

ยง 1.

IT was the voyage of one man across Asia

that caused three great conflicts, destroyed Korea, converted Manchuria and Shantung into prizes of war; and after militarizing North China made civil war endemic in this country. If the unfortunate Nicholas, Tsarevitch as he then was, had not come to Vladivostok in 1890, seen the possibilities, and cut the first sod of the trans-Siberian Railway, Russia would never

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