TROUBLE IN TURKESTAN
WHY RUSSIAN TROOPS MOVED TO KASHGAR. By Telegraph.— PreßS Association.— Copyright. (Received June 13, 10 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 12th June. Russia's recent advance' of troops t» Kaehgar City is duo to revolutionary troops causing trouble in Turkestan. The situation is getting worse. Lowclass Chinese are masquerading as a national militia. [Kashgar City is in Chinese Turkeetap It is a large trading centre. Russian Turkestan comprises the Khanates aud deserts, annexed by Generals Tchernaieff and Kaufmann between 1860 and 1875, and now known as the provinces of Samarkand, Ferghana, and Syr-Daria.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 140, 13 June 1912, Page 7
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