Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . 8. An old picture of Em-peror Kaotsunijs {in-i^rSiSK) (I736-I77< ) victory over theMongols. 9. A picture of thetriumphal cele-bration on thesame — 181 — East however made this necessary, and Ijy treaties of KJS.) and theAmur (^JtiHtr.) and (rUffiH/i-frtM) Rivers were made the border line, whilethe country to the east of the Issuri {f.^MHlPi) was set apart as thecommon possession of Russia and China, hut this jiortion was also annexed byRussia under the treaty of 18(>(h III. Recent Development After the ac((uisition of th
Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . 8. An old picture of Em-peror Kaotsunijs {in-i^rSiSK) (I736-I77< ) victory over theMongols. 9. A picture of thetriumphal cele-bration on thesame — 181 — East however made this necessary, and Ijy treaties of KJS.) and theAmur (^JtiHtr.) and (rUffiH/i-frtM) Rivers were made the border line, whilethe country to the east of the Issuri {f.^MHlPi) was set apart as thecommon possession of Russia and China, hut this jiortion was also annexed byRussia under the treaty of 18(>(h III. Recent Development After the ac((uisition of the Siberian Littoral Region in ISHl), Russia, forabout thirty years, endeavoured to develop that part of her Asiatic i^ossessionsby various means, among which may be mentioned the establishment ot thenumerous Cossack villages along the Siberian side of the Amur (^lltH), andthe opening of regular steamship services on that great river by granting alarge subsidy for that ijurjiose. Finally, in 1S91 she started the constructionof the Great Trans-Siljcrian Line. In 1894 war broke out l^-twccn Japanand China, but in about a year ijeace was concluded. By the terms of thepeace the peninsula o
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