Six years later began the rapid expansion of Russia in Central Asia, and at the end xxiii.
The expansion of trade was due to the establishment of a boat route directly to the island.
They went as a rule to the United expansion.
Each of them, besides being a reversing gear, is an expansion gear both in forward and backward running.
For an increase in the navy there was, indeed, sufficient excuse in the enormous expansion of German over-sea commerce and the consequent growth of the mercantile marine; the value of foreign trade, which in 1894 was 365,000,000, had risen in 1904 to 610,000,000, and in the same period the tonnage of German merchant shipping had increased by 234%.