It is difficult to get any very clear understanding of
what is going on in the Pamir—" the roof of the world," as the high- lands that separate the British dominions, Russia, and China in North-East Central Asia are called—bat we suspect that the aggression, if there is any, is rather directed towards China than India. The Times' correspondent in St. Petersburg, tele- graphing on Tuesday, declares that, " in view of the possibility of complications arising between Russia and China in con- nection with the alleged infringement of the Chinese frontier by Russian expeditions, the Military Governor of the Siberian Transbaikal Province has ordered the removal of all Jews• residing within a distance of 100 kilometres of the Chinese frontier, in order to prevent their being employed as spies by the Chinese." The families of exiled Jews who have taken up. their residence with the exiles in Siberia will, it is said, be sent back to the districts of the Empire " especially assigned to Jews. for.their permanent and obligatory residence." If this is true, it looks as if Russia were intending to open the Chinese ques- tion. The distractions now reigning at Pekin may make her think the present moment a favourable opportunity for striking a blow.
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