The Conflict of Colour the Threatened Upheaval Throughout the World
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after a century of intermittent warfare. To-day it is very important to note this fact: that from the moment Nurhachu, the original founder of the Manchu Empire in Manchuria, 1 began his contest with the Ming sov- ereigns of China, to the time when all China openly acknowledged the Manchu sway, nearly a century was consumed. The Manchu race, when they conquered China, were under no delusions regarding the nature of their prize. They knew that, as in the case of most political conquests in civil...ised times, their success sprang from a variety of causes besides their military prowess. They therefore took steps to cement their hold on China both by the threat of force and by a most extensive use of the principle of compromise. On the one hand the Manchu and Mongol hordes and their Chinese allies were reorganised into eight great Banners or corps with Peking as their focal point and strong garrisons were distributed strategically over the length and breadth of China; on the other hand the 1 The Japanese have chosen an excellent means for familiaris- ing their troops with Manchuria.
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