The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1912. RUSSIAN INFLUENCE IN CHINA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 88, 12 April 1912, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1912. RUSSIAN INFLUENCE IN CHINA.

Writing from Pekin in the, middle of March, a correspondent states that the, chief native Chinese newspaper, the "Sheii Pad," of Shanghai, closedits doors for a week from ,13th FcbV ruary, in order to celebrate the Republic by installing new machinery, arranging for ' coloured illustrations, and bringing the newspaper strictly up, to date. Its latest issues then gave the following pieces of telegraphic news from Mongolia:—(1) The Cheptsun Damba of Urga is arranging to borrow four million ounces from Rus> sia on the security of the gold mines. (2) The Mongols, under the lead of their own chief, General Shengfuh, and many of them armed with Russian rifles, have taken possession of Khailar, on the Russo-Manchurian Railway, near the Russian frontier, and have driven out the ManchuChinese authorities. Shengfuh guarantees the safety of all foreigners, Japanese included. (3) Russia is stated to have recognised the revolutionary Government of Hi (Kuldja). For some time several hundred Chinese immigrants a day have been arriving at Urga on foot, having walked across the desert in order to take r.p land there, or to work the gold mines on the river Iro. Khailar, which ton years ago consisted of a dozen Mongol tents, is now a Russian city counting many thousand inhabitants, with hotels and everything modern; in fact, it ranks only second to Harbin. Russian influence has long been predominant in Hi, where the Manchu authorities have been mere puppsts; and the new Tartar-General Cli-jwei, the two exiled "Boxer" princes, Tsai-i (Prince Twan) and Tsai-lan (Duke Lan), together with the Viceroy (formerly Tartar-General) Ghangkeng, have been engaged in a plot to place Pulun on the Pekin throne. What the Russians specially dread is Chinese immigration anywhere near their 4000 miles of frontier.