Tenement apartments at the beginning of the twentieth century were
spacious but crowded.
small and dangerous.
crowded but safe.
renovated and spacious.
The Russo-Japanese War developed out of the rivalry between Russia and Japan for dominance in Korea and Manchuria. In 1898 Russia had pressured China into granting it a lease for the strategically important port of Port Arthur (now Lüshun), at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, in southern Manchuria.
He sent them so that the U.S. could get rid go rights to build the canal at lower rice.
