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Title: One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Printed by G. F. Lasher & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tune to defeat its powerful antagonist. RUSSIAN DESIGNS ON MANCHURIA This contest, which takes its place among the great wars ofmodern times, must be dealt with briefly here, as it belongs toEuropean history only in the minor sense of a European countrybeing engaged in it. It arose from the encroachments of Russiain the Chinese province of Manchuria and fears on the part of Japanthat the scope of Russian designs might include the invasion andconquest of that country. As already stated, Russia secured a lease of Port Arthur, atthe southern extremity of Manchuria, from China in 1896. Sub-sequently the Siberian Railway was extended southward fromHarbin to this place, the harbor was deepened, and building opera-tions were begun at a new town named Dalny, which was to bemade Asias greatest port. The line of the railway was stronglyguarded with Russian troops. These movements of Russia excited suspicion in Great Britainand Japan, which countries so strongly opposed the military occu- p t? 3
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