CHINESE IN RUSSIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9896, 11 September 1914, Page 7

CHINESE IN RUSSIA.

Agitation is being gradually worked up in tht Nationalist Preis against tha influx of Chinamen into Ru?sia. For somi time past there have been continual complaints from many Russian towns of tha unwelcome presence of large numbers of Chinese pedlars and vagrants, and the characteristic defects of this lower order of the ysl low rscs are paiated in the mo»t vnartrao i live eoloars. The R»%si»o Far East b&s been teeming with eheap Chtaese iabtw. and the aesion of the Goveraor.General of Imur territory in restrteting any further engagement of Chinamen on publie works is much praised; but these measures unfortunately have only had the effeot af inducing the uninvited and irrepresiible yellow guest to penetrate westward into Imrepean Rustia Before the eonstruotion of the Siberian and Oestral Asian railways Russia was safe few* the ineuiaion af this undesirable yellew element, with Its eonetftnitant spread of epidemie disease and undcteet* | able ertmec Now the heathen Chinee is everywhere conspicuous. He may be t«e« ian all the streets of Peirograd In Mesoow there is not a tea shop without its Chinese visitors. The "Novoye Vrsmya," J in a special article on tht subject, refers to J tke measures t*km in other cout tries against Chinese emigrants, and calls for similar steps in Russia to put a stop to ■ this dangerous Chinese mavsment.