The Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1905 VLADIVOSTOK.

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The Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1905 VLADIVOSTOK.

* Vlapiyostok was obtained by Russia from China by a trick. The story of its acquisition is told in tbe Nine teentb Century for July by Mr 0. Eltzbacher. The name Vladivostok signifies " Mistress of tbe East," and Vladivostok was acquired, founded, fortified, and equipped in order to make Russia tbe mistress of the East. Forty five years ago tbe English and French were at war witb Cbina, and the allies marched on Pekin. Sir Hope Grant and General Montauban, who later on was created Count Palikao, commanded tbe expedition. Tbe commanders were greatly troubled by their unacquaintance witb Chinese affairs, and by the shiftiness of the Chinese. They were joined by one Nicholai Pavlovitch Ignatief, a Russian officer of the Guards, who was 28 years old, who spoke French and English, and who bad a marvellous knowledge of Chinese matters. He provided tbe commanders witb maps and valuable information which led to the takmg ot Pekin. When tbe allies had taken Pekin and destroyed tbe Summer Palace in order to aveDge the murder of the European envoys, and when the Emperor of China bad taken to flightjgnatief persuaded the terrified Chinese that the allies had come to expel tbe reigning dynasty and to subject China to themselves. He told them that China's only hope lay in securing the intervention of a strong European Power friendly to Cbina. He (Ignatief) alone was able to cause the foreign troops to withdraw, and he would make them retire from Pekin provided the Chinese would cede to Russia the north bank of the Amur and tbe whole of the Ussuri province, which reaches from tbe mouth of the Amur down to the Korean frontier, and which includes the territory where Vladivostok now stands. The Chinese, who were greatly frightened by the presence of the allies and by their violence, willingly ceded to Russia the territory which Ignatief desired. A year later Prince Eung accidentally dis covered that the allies had no intention of occupying Pekin per manently, that [neither Ignatief nor Russia had done China any service whatever, and that Russia bad obtained a valuable Chinese province witb 600 miles of coast line by fraud.