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Rapid Growth of Russia Expansive Tendency of Agricultural Peoples The Russo-Slavonians The Northern Forest and the Steppe Colonisation The Part of the Government in the Process of Expansion Expansion towards the West Growth of the Empire Represented in a Tabular Form Commercial Motive for Expansion The Expansive Force in the Future Possibilities of Expansion in Europe Persia, Afghanistan, and India Trans-Siberian Railway and Weltpolitik A Grandiose Scheme Determined Opposition of Japan Negotiations and War Russia's Imprudence Explained Conclusion.
This is a Japanese railway and operates with a steamship line crossing the Yellow Sea and the great Trans-Siberian railroad, or rather did so before the world war. In Dalny I found a good Y. M. C. A. building with an American secretary. This association has good buildings in nearly every large oriental city especially if it is near the coast.
During the early days of this second official stay of mine at Berlin, Russia had, in one way and another, secured an entrance into China for her trans-Siberian railway, and seemed to have taken permanent possession of the vast region extending from her own territory to the Pacific at Port Arthur.
He was in Rome during May, and in June he was seized by a sudden whim and went to China by the Trans-Siberian railway. Lewes did not accompany him. Challis preferred, one imagines, to have no intercourse with Lewes while the memory of certain pronouncements was still fresh.
It was that ever-existent thirst for access to the ocean which tempted her into tortuous diplomacy, drawing her on and on, like the hand of fate. Manchuria itself would be unavailing unless she could control Korea, which alone possessed the ocean facilities for which she had struggled since the first year of her existence. In the year 1900 the Trans-Siberian Railway was completed.
He nodded. "Troop of Semenoff's bandits in a little two-by-four fight out on the trans-Siberian railroad. Guess they wanted the trainload of rations we were guarding. My captain killed the fellow who stuck me and accounted for four others who tried to finish me." "Captains think a great deal of good first sergeants," she suggested. "And you got a wound-chevron out of it.
"I asked Miss Holroyd a few questions about Jack, and was informed that he had given up law and entered the consular service as what, I did not dare ask, for I know what our consular service is. "'In China, said Daisy. "'Choo Choo is the name of the city, added her father, proudly; 'it's the terminus of the new trans-Siberian railway. "'It's on the Pong Ping, said Daisy.
An Act of August 29, 1916, substituted an elective Senate for the Philippine Commission as the upper house of the Legislature. The United States arrived in the Orient at a moment of high excitement. Russia was consolidating the advance of two centuries by the building of the trans-Siberian railroad, and was looking eagerly for a port in the sun, to supplement winter-bound Vladivostok.
By using this railway a traveller can go from London to Shanghai in fourteen days, the route being to Dover, across the Channel to Calais, by rail to Moscow, from Moscow to Vladivostock by the Trans-Siberian railway, and from Vladivostock to Shanghai by sea.
If the train went as fast as the sun we should enjoy perpetual day; but the train lags behind, and we only gain an hour in the twenty-four. The Trans-Siberian railway is the longest in the world, the distance from Dalny to Moscow being 5400 miles.
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