The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 67: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM aie KONG. 6} f where she has of course boen surrottnded by British influences. While Her inherent patriotism might prevent her from yielding up her love for her native America across the sea, she could not live under these conditions without. imbibing many of the English notions—one does this almost insensibly during a protracted residence in a foreign land. ’ ‘Hence, she must have become imbued with some of the Britisher’s intense dislike for anything *Russian, such as particularly dominates those residents of Hong- Kong and India. To them Russia is the one enemy to be feared in all the wide world. Year by year they see her influence spreading out with an utter disregard for all obstacles in the way—now advancing across the tremendous steppes of Siberia and threatening Japan, Korea and northern China—anon conquering the tribes of Kurds, and creeping closer and closer to the border of India—dominating the councils of the Turkish sultan, and even threatening to have & | finger in the Abyssinian turmoil after Italy has received a check from King Menelek. No wonder these patriotic Britons, so far away from the mother country, view this steady advanee of.their old enemy with secret imeasi- ness. They know full well that it is only a question of ug me . edfnebootss. com