RUSSIA AND THE FAR EAST.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12218, 15 April 1908, Page 3

RUSSIA AND THE FAR EAST.

Received April 14, 11.5 p.m. St. Petersburg, April 14. Count Stoiypin urged the Douma to vote money as Russia must be strong in the Far East, not only for lighting, but for the protection of national civilizing B work, which vva3 Russia's historic mission. It was impossible to double the track of tfce Manchurian line, because Uttina had the right of preemption, add would certainly buy. WiShout the proposed railway it was impossible to develop forty million acres of corn lands, rich and auriferious, I the wenlfea cf the forests of the Amur region, or to prevent the influx cf aliens. (Enthusiastic cheera. )