Word: manchurian
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...Knox, American Secretary of State under Taft's administration proposed a magnificent scheme for the neutralization of the Manchurian railways. The scheme was planned with a view to sop he existing practice of rate discrimination and facilitate the transportation of foreign merchandise there. It failed completely. Both Russia and Japan made strong oppositions. They would not allow any meddling in the territories which they considered as their spheres of interest. At present practically all the railways are run by semi-Japanese Government officials, and by unfair treatment of foreign merchants and deliberate cheating of the Chinese tax officials the only...
...best article in the traditional American diplomatic creed. It was the article which John Hay first defined when he asked the European Powers to accept the Open Door as the foundation of their relations with China, the article which Philander Knox amplified when he proposed the neutralization of the Manchurian Railways, and the article which Woodrow Wilson repudiated when he consented to the cession of Shantung to Japan. An international agreement which initiated a promising settlement of the problem of China would accomplish as much for the future peace of the world as would a healing of the quarrel between...
...there is significance in the realization that this case, like so many others before it, demands action that coincides exactly with Japan's imperialistic designs. Japan has already seized Vladivostok, from which it is unlikely that she will be driven by Russia; she has Port Arthur, Darien, the South Manchurian coast, and Shantung and the adjoining part of the Northern Chinese coast. The province of Chientao is the only remaining gap in the control of all the Northern Asia coast. And it is just at Chientao that the bandits broke out in lawlessness which demands the landing of Japanese troops...
...roubles or $10 for every hour he made up, Mr. Mears was able to cut down the delay by about 8 hours, but the remaining loss was enough to make him miss his boat at Vladivostok. He left the Trans-Siberian, therefore, at Harbin, and taking the South Manchurian Railroad to Moukden he was able to get a fast train to Seoul the capital of Corea. From here a fast train took the traveller to Fusan, at the Southern Extremity of Corea, where he took a boat to Japan...