HOW CHINA IS WAKING UP

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 7 June 1909, Page 4

HOW CHINA IS WAKING UP

MOTOR-CAR. SERVICE' THROUGH THE GOBI DESERT. OUSTING THE RUSSIANS. The Tageblalt fur Xord China publishes an interesting article on the growth of Chinese power in Mongolia. It says that important Chinese colonial questions are .being solved, unostentatiously, and that Tibet, .Mongolia, and Manchuria arc becoming more Chinese than ever they have been. As the means of strengthening her national position in the Dependencies. China is sending to those places enormous numbers of emigrants. To send coolies and peasants in as large numbers as it desires to these countries, thinly peopled by native tribes, costs the Peking Government only the small labor of edicts to the Governors of provinces suitable for such emigration, and small financial aid in special cases. An army of about 4(1,000 men, drilled by Japanese instructors and armed with modern weapons, has been placed duriii" the past two years in the region uf t rumtchi, and the old frontier posts of Ruldja and Bulun-lochoi have been strengthened. In the so-called further Mongolia, on the north of the Gobi desert, the sudden activity of the Chinese Governors Kobdo and Uliasutai is filling the Consuls charged with the maintenance of Russian interests in L'rga and Uliasutai with anxiety. Even in these places, which are only' reached after a tedious desert journey from Peking, the military as well as the economic power of the Chinese is making slow but steady progress ° Since 1007 'in East Mongolia there have been camps of regular Chinese troops. The endeavors of China in Hongo ha are not only directed against the attempts' of Russia to obtain foot in that country, but also against the independent Mongolian prince*. The interest of independence and the danger threatening tht-m Iron, 1-ekin makes the Mongolian princes the natural allies of he Russian*, who are 1110n . sympathetic to then, than (he Chinese. The author asks of what avail that is against the H ers and-lraders, will, whom Russian uaclcis cannot compete. The overland trade of the (~» ~.,,.. vans through t|,e Cold desert 'vi a W,ml- "■ ,1 ; , V ,n,,, j.' 11t °«-''! mli.m lS llioii»aml.< of .Mongols, and m-ide (Ik. people dependent un TJ ussii „, „ M , s «nte obtained for (wenty-liye roubles

.Instead of (bat (1,,. Chinese are plantinoig,, ti„. ,„,!„ llp t ht T and Kalgau; which will slmrlly i e con neeted with Peking by . n ,jl. ' e C °"