Miscellaneous.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 163, 10 June 1909, Page 4

Miscellaneous.

China's Awakening. The "Tafgeblatt fur Nodr China, 7 ' publishes an interesting article on the growth of Chinese power in Mongolia. It ?;iv:- that important Chinese colonial questio-s are i eing solved unostonatiouFly. and that Tibet. Mongolia and Manchuria are becoming more Chinese than thov have ev< r been. As a moans of lengthening her national position, in the dependencies, China is sending to those planes enormous numbers of emigrants. To send coolies and peasar.'s in as iarge numbers as it desirfs to these places, which are thinly peoplrd i,v Native tribes, costs the Pekin Government o;,ly the small labour of edicts to the- Coventors 0 f the Province •■;. Att army of about -JO/ioo men, ■lrill'd by Jat att<-so instructors, and ;.iai-<d -luring the P-;=t two year- in the rogoin of rrumtebi, and many of the older frontier posts have been strengthened. In the portion of the country known as Further Mongolia, north of the Gobi desert, the sudden activity of the Chinese Governors is filling the Consuls charged with the maintenance of Russian interests with anxiety. Even in the places which are reached only after a tedious journey over the desert from Pekin, the military as well as the economic power of the Chinese is making slow but steady progress. The endeavours of China in Mongolia are directed not only against the attempts of Russia to regain a footing in that country, but also against the independent Mongolian princes. The interest of independence and the danger threatening them from Pekin make the Mongolian princes the natural allies of the Russians. The question that is now agitating them is whether their affection for Russia will be of any avail irresistiable forward rush of the Chinese settlers and traders.with whom the Russian traders cannot compete. The overland tea caravans through the Gobi desert have oponc d a new route. and the business that made the Mongols dependent on Russian gold has ceased. The Chinese are further carrying out plans for progress in the region, by arranging the first automobile communication through the Gobi desert between Urga and Kaigan. which will soon be connected with Pekin by rail.