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establist nltimately as their stating for bath freight and piss sigue trafo, in vving a second stay at Palipso for through pismu pies from or compelling another extension from West Changchun to the Rusia station. West Changchun is the ncms given to the new Japo tlement of about 10 nores which has been wis d by the railroad and independent colonists on the land originally set apart fɔe sa intern cional foreign sitlem int. Ser ral aulis'antial brick buildings have al nady been pataping a ling the Ritwy Hotel Club which is the mt prominent fatare in the landscape, surmounting a little 1611, with a tall flag-stalk from which fes the south Ma johnris tésilway's flig The Milau Bursin Kaisha and the Yokohama Spazia Bank and well establishel, and achly of more than 2, 00 Japanese, is rapully increasing.
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The railway facilit to one with th freight traffic they have Ban sacks, bean cuke, tobacco, undertake. mushrooms, pince ga de cart wheels and
of other articl-s
and import stacked in pilas, twenty feet high, all around the station which they mile from view. From a distance at the time of the Viceruya visit, the plac· resambied some closest ant-hill, with Clinee cirts for an x crawling forever in and out of the moaatsia of pr duos which nach contribution swelled,
The two regions which are revealed by the enterprise, for in spits of steady financial logs, Viceroy's journey as being the centres of chief sinal attempt has been inid to bid for the interest and the seats of probable futur¦ lucrative right traffic of Norfi, Manchu in diffoulty are Harbiu The districts in
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for export via Vladivostock. Ouly very receut- Fengtion from Kuangoh-ngizu southward to i ly, within the past month, the ·xtraordinary Makden, the former typical of the Russian y congestion of freight at Kae gehen ztzu, wiìch
Nortle position in
Mauchur 8, the latter i the South Manchurian Railway his bien to`ally significant of the Japanese attrude aud ap- unable to reli va, dins for sed a certain amount parent intentious in Central Maucharia.
of competitive ac ivity up the Russian 1ger, vis the In Harbin the chief difficulty via
Nevertheless, both in Harbin and in. V alivo- Chiness and foreigners,—not Russians-is fitly stock. extensive investment in economically summarised in the regulations adopted this unproductiv amazement goes on and ingrower month by the Russian community for apparently in inverse ratio to the sound pres- the municipal administration of that city, perity of those cities. Theatres, opera-houses, Harbin was opened by China as a place of; cafés chantan *, reg anrouts and confectioners international residence and trade in January shops af stor esrah ishmen's there are more 1907, but nothing faintly indicative of such a in Harbin and Viadivost,ck thin in Shang- status can be found in thess regulations which ↑ hai and Hongkong, and they are supported upon determine the mole of governu-ut of the port less thin 10 pe ent of the wealth of the and the conditions under which property shall Is ter parts. As might be expected i gorder be acquired and basiums transacted within its abounds, robberies and murd es are of fergant limits. In the agreement which the Rus o- and regular ‹ccurrence, and as in the pioneer Cuinese Back effected with
the Chinese days of the Western American States 8xly
I Viron Government in 1896 regarding settlements | years ago, everyone, gass armed. long the line of the Chiu-se Eastern Railway, j inek smouldering revolutionary disorder is the ao authority exists for regulations of the nature chief o use of uneasiness, whereas Hathin seems of those just adopted, nor is there any further al pres-ut fue sanctuary for all the criminal or other understanding or agreement in existenc plusses of the South of Europe and the
Caucasus. It is not too mach fo warranting the assumptions they con'ain.
*y that regulations themselves are, in the objcs aimed Corruption, werkness and inefficiency are as at, Fuch as education, municipal improvouent prevalent in Russian Manchuria as they were of buildings and streets, supervision of police, before the war, and it is elar to the mot
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the Japanese, a hop-fal, casual observer that, although the Russian 859 compact organization Harbin nnquestionably needs regulations of tais į courteous to a travelling vinnus offla al, the kind;
the trouble, or the sad of trouble, lies Chinese Ciunol. respect the Rassisus ** not in the regulations themselve, but in the ruling and administ-ative class. What North manner by which they are brought into Manchuria used to day is a stric' observance operation, and the point of view on the part of of treaty conditions and obligations, leading the framers which they indicate.
to the growth of a x und political and com It is important to bear in mind that oam aplegant incident bagets a frame of mind in This point of view, inasmuch as the regula. m-rcial status which will attract the investment tions were framed without the knowledge or of cipital. The region is rich enough in au observer of, or a suff›rer from that incidsut. <hie anorm lably, co ones future experiences consent of either the Chinese local or provincial agriculture, 'imlar au i minerds, the labou is at authorities, indicates the attitude of the Russian hind, and transpo.tation facilities are available, | and may prejudic‹fur julgament. This is na interests in north Manchuria. The plan was Par greater than suy uneasiness regarding | exceedingly trying period for Japan, the most the last war, drafted by the Railway management.
It pro-
conditions in North Manchuria is the apprehen- | difficult, not evu exopting vides for a municipal government by 1) an sion of the Provincial government as to Chinese | through which she bacpissed. It is therefore While the unfair t› julge her hast ly now by individual assembly of 60 delegates and (2) a town council | sovereignity in Untral Manchuria.
One must remember that it is of six members including the chairman, Since Postal and Telegraph negotiations still hang | discretions
the best B r1s of a people who the Railway, up to the present, has been arbi-fi and the Chieutro boundary is unsettle 1, the | never
flow arini-s into a land nowly opened trarily administering the affairs of the city, Japaness appear to by proceeding as if there
and that by war,
it is
By matter such a plan seems at first sight a relinquishment could be no doubt as to their own claims
to administer a large,
establishment, DW by them of authority, but a reading of the Recently the objections raised against the document shows that in reality un surrender of extension of the
like a railway for example, in a strange aud Imperial Railways ty prerogative is effected. Half of the council are Fakumen have intensified the situation and uncomfortable land, among an alien people.
What I should 1:2 et chosueval in Ma ichuria railroad officials or appointees; all transactions,¦ emoliented it by bringing in the interests alike in assembly and council, must be in Russian,¦ of Paulings and the British Corporation. | is that Fair Play is intan lad; that what appose and the ailway expressly TeXerves thes Thesis aid ther similar queg ́ions que ritally right of supervision, review and valo,
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In response t› the repeated importunities of
Cinema engineer is no W
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gazed up in th« survɔy of tus Kirin-Chang- chun lin-. Vecording to the t rms of their no 1- renti in the Chinese mast burrow 5 per cent. of the capital necessary for this enterprise from the Japanese.
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STARTLING DISCOVERY.
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to b- svald need of bil twaty faith ace
interesting in
111 Mincha, and, that premeditated, but due to various their solution more all relations of this municipal admini-
will g⚫ far towards fixing **t zanema nf a situation, divergent in oriựtu Could s toh eHasAUPADOS and difficult to astrol, stration with the Chinese Government The as yet undetermined political status of th - i
Langible gisen and supported by sOTO Y with the Consular representatives of Fore ga provines, and further or retard its e immore, if - by Governments can only be conducted with the and industrial growth, they must comm sud evilene, mu se charity wouli bi noordal to the Far East. bgit mata Japinosa, muterprise in March-aris, consent of the Railway authorities.
I winch tast a-sured y must rin Chines readily be seen therefore that the trausler on ¦ discussion of them cannot be undertaken within
f rin province. authority to a so-called municipal government ! the limits of the presen“ letter, but may on the part of the Railway is merely nominal, ! th • subj «l matter of future contributious. and that the political control remsits as before As for conditions at kuangshengtzn and ! rested in the Railway.
Kirin as the Viceroy found thin, they may be Such an established order of things in North | briefly stated. When one er ssx from th Manchuria the Viceroyalty will strongly oppos. Russia into the Japanese z n- at Chang hun The Chinese Eastern Railway (that portion of ous passes from semustagnation into tho the Trans-Siberian traversing Manchuris is,
stes of great activity, although afficiency in of course, only Chinese in name, and thase Japaniga enterprise i
markel ! regulations, if allowed to remsin in force place! Wherever inefficiency 18 f und south of Ching- the government of the open port of Harbin 1 chân, Inwever, it is ʼn ver the result of corrup ander the control of an organ of the Russini | tion suid w- kurss on the part of the Japanese.
yorking government
wholy for Russian Sines the first of D-e»mber the Japausser girl political and commercial interests, iu discrimina- Russiau terminal stations at Esokor and tion against the interes's of other nationals. Palpio respectively lxva be Juged, the By virture of its situation on the ungarian1, Rasian broad gange and the Japanese narro a at the junction of two ailroads. Harbin should, gauge running side by side over the ous mia enjoy a rapid commercial development
which separates the statio 1 during the two years of ailway domination of the two roads hard als: tema intusliy sines the war, trade has steadily decreased Marranged so that through passender sÁTY LOW LILY that at present the city is practically living now beeffet d conveniently and with my fog ! king, during tin tư mch waded 31st Jangry' upon itself, and unless the incubus of this' of time the waits legg of the domination 080 be removed, healthy interpunctual, not more than 30 minutes. national commerce and business development in | the Harbiu district are impossible.
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In connection with the Viceroy's visit in North Manchuria several points developed of interest as regards general conditions there. The Trans-Siberian
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It is reparted that a coustable on duty in the vicinity o Blake Gracilan entired the gindua at arly hour On Fibrairy 12th with the ja
Va on. Seeing obj -et of ordering loaters to N【 (2) 10 & sitting posture ou ons of the suits 1 [1 a secluded pirt, he approte and with them «bje ot urlæring casu out, but was koerilind to dud that all x x were orpio- Dath in each 10s suck is said to have beɑ dan ti si silpox,
Inference is that the bidie. [ dumped."
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Word
It turns of the averag i amount of biak uot" in circulation and of spiele tu paserve in Hong'
traits aru | 180*,
But the Japanese hare now run off north- estward a great curing spur of tree, whic't term"bates in ther aww fight a sfiou sh
beton Fardest West Chungchun, half way
sad b rrac is
and the the Ra-sian station Railroad is operated Chinee city at Kusage i nxu. 16- ter at a loss of over million roubles par station is directly on the sur y of the projected. month, and the salaries of the employees and ¦ besuch lias to Kirin, a part of the permso ut lesser officials were raid to be work in arrear. Russia evidently regards her railroad as a political rather than a sound commercial
way for which the Japanese have already begu The freight terminus, we are informed on the best of authorit, the Japanese intend to
as ort tid by the respectiva blak-, aro as
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managers of the
under : AVERAOS SPECIE AMOUNT. In Resmave.
(';articl¡ank of India
Au‹ ralis and China. 1,124 NGS Hingko ng and 3 anghai
3,100,000
Banking Corporation, 16,644, 57 1,900,00 National Bank of bios,
150,000
Lim-ted,
Total,
349,0 9
...$24,917,982–14,250,000