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VICTORY WITHOUT ARMS

REPORT FROM TURKESTAN

On "the roof of Asia," where the empires of Russia and Britain touch the borders of China, lie the wastes of Turkestan—also called, in its Chinese area, by the Chinese name of Sinkiang. It is a land of great deserts, oases, of some 4,000,000 Moslems and Chinese; a nomads' land of some 12,000,000 sheep, 2,000,000 horses, 50,000 camels; a land whose exact area is unknown (estimates: 400,000 to 700,000 sq. mi.). Into this vast area, no foreign journalist had been allowed to go for many years. Out of it had come...

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