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Excerpt from China: Travels and Investigations in the Middle Kingdom
While in command of the Department of Matanzas and Santa Clara, in the island of Cuba, with headquarters at the city of Matanzas, early in the month of June, 1900, I learned from the American newspapers that a crisis was approaching in the relations of China with the rest of the world. My interest in that far-away country had been kept alive by the war between it and Japan, by the books which of late years have been given to the world in increasing numbers, by the flood of arti cles in the magazines and newspapers, and above all by an active correspondence with men of intelligence resident in China, and by conferences with travelers and promoters more Or less actively engaged in soliciting concessions for railways and mines and in the develop ment of the resources of the country.
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