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experience, Port Arthur, 16th November.
NELISTA CIGARETTES.
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Chinese one now mosts with io Port Arthar has a sufficient acquaintance with that language to understand and to make himself understood,
This statement has been confirmed by my own which has unde it clear to me that if wo take the proportion of Chinese in Tort Arthur who knew Russian and the proportion Company are prepared to ACCEPT may have the unlooked-for effect of making of Chinese in Hongkong or Singapore who NELISIA CIGARETTES ARE MANUFACTURED FROM THE CHOICEST
kuow Eugliah wo find that, in spite of the comparatively recent arrival of the Russian, TURKISH TOBACCO. PACKED IN AIR-TIGHT TINS OF FIFTY,
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AN UNEXPECTED EFFECT.
The present crisis in Russo-Japanese relations Russia and Japan understand more than ever they did before of each other's history and hagauge. Many Russian ofears in Liactane and Vladirestook have lately taken to the study of Japanese, and some of them have translated from that language tooks which are now on sale in the book-stores. A great deal of attention is bestowel, too, on the vernacular Press; unl the history of Dai Nippon some to axercise quita * fascination orer Russian reader 36 at least I should judge from- T-First Chase Foreign and hind to it. numerots arieles on Japausses historical
subjects that I find in Russian nasrepapo
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accept,
the proportion in the former case in larger than it is in the latter.
The explanation of this lios. I suppose, in the older antare of the Englishman. The Russiau treats the Chinese more as a man and aaw a Chineso brother. The other day emergo from a sailors! reading-room in a dazed coulition and with the appearance of having quite recently parted company with his pig.
tall. I use not doubt that in exchange for that chorishod appendaga he had acquired almost instantaneously some vigorous Russian idioms memorise. The common Russian soldierande flor
Also to nccept proposals for LIFE ASSUR. 1 picked up accidentally the other day a cops which it takes ordinary foreigners a long time to
of au checure paper called the Kronstadtky Vratnik, in which I came across a long con-
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[5063 Hongkong, 2nd November, 1903.
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fional article on the "Origins of Civilisation takes a rough, but kindly interest in the NOBEL-GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES.
in Japan" which seems to bave been taken from another Russing paper, the Provit Vestn. It is not very likely, however, that this oraz for things Japaness will be pornnent owing, amour other things, to the fact that English is becoming more are more the language of Japan, and that the cream of the native Press is skimmed off by expert hands in the English notepapers which appear in the country.
THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN JAPAN. The conquests unde by the Russian languag- in Japan and China will perhaps to mere per- manent. The Far Eastern crisis sooma certain- ly to have given a great impetus to the study of the Russian language in this part of the world. The sumber of Japaness who have taken up that, language in the School of Foreign Lan pures at Tokyo is, I am told, so great that no moze pupils can be received, and the trade done by hooksellers in Russian grammars and diction- aries, torded for English students, is to brisk as to autonish publishers in Bugland. A Rus- Bian grammar with the explanations in Japanese of which has bon published by the Chaplain the Russian Legation at T kyo in selling very well, while many Japanese teachers of the Muscovite tongue are rushing ato print Jayonaise with phase-books. tesicons, gram- mars, etc, some of them not quits up to the
mark.
I local personification of the Yellow Peril. have sean a squad of soldiers passing a Chinese earler Bud
every man
the side next to the cart gave poor John a shave and a poke. Job bore it all laughingly and responded
WIL
Russian which was fluent if not onssical. These soldiers moist no iners harm by their shoving" than doos the average British or American sololboy, and the Chinaman got a good opportunity of practising his Russian. Judging by its results, this system of learning languages is, indent, worth the attention of our Gouins and Berlitzest Euch exchanges of. conflasies Frequently occur between the on- querors and the conquered here, and if John Chingau bappens to get knocked down or to receive a
resounding whack, the laughter on both sides is redoubled. Why should it be otherwise? This style of humour has ban popular among the common people of all nations since the dawn of history, sad perhaps to an even greater extent before the dawn, and the British Music Hall is a standing memorial tits popularity among moderns.
To Kussian Bollior does not get much pay. Int his heart is largo and the crowds of beggars, canterfoil and genuine, that hang around the soldiers' barracks here testify to his generosity. In
barracks, however, ho is generous in his corporate capacity, on the march he is generous
the
asu individual. You see soldiers en Siberian railway give part of their leaf to a Chinese beggar and manifest delight if their Eft is appreciated.
Ibring all this in to show that the Chinese has unique opportunities for learning Russian. In other words, his conqueror fraternises with him freely. You sometimes see Russian soldiers shaking hands with Chiness "boys" in the street. If a cholerie old Indian colonol saw one of bis men behave like this ho would probably have an attack of apoplexy on the spot. But the Russian Inaguago rooms to have attacked not caly the boys" and the ruolies But also the country people.
Five miles from Port Arthur I bare met peasants ploughing the soil and fishermen carry. New Dg nets, able (the non, not the nets) to converse in Bussian, and, boggar lads able to make clear To the pussing stranger the alleged fact that they bail ima noting to eat for an indetinits speak is pidin Russian. For instance a boy period of time. Of coured the language they $73 Nyet, Koshhoosh instead of Yu Ne Kushal (I have not eaten anything); and on, the who, they have made of Russian the same amusing systematic holeh-poteh which they have ads of English and French.
On the other and there are not, I think, as
If Russia advances of her present rate in North China, the day must come when a know. ledge of Russian will become ar recessary in the Legations ut Paking as a knowledge of English in necessary in Calcatta. The same remark 2 plies to the business pen and consuls all over North China, though I do not believe that either of these two classes is making any parti cular haste in this matter.
For military men and searden trading with siberia and Linotung the utility of Russian is On the Japanese rasset already recognised. which brought me here some time ago, the first officer ecald speak Russian fuently and I think that some of the officers on all the Japa- hese vezels trading with Russian possessions in this port of the world have some sequaintance with the same tongue. For army officers both in England and in Japan a knowledge of Russian is becoming more dosirable every day, and I believe that the number of Japaness to distinguish between them just rowwho military men and merchants-it is often hard are at present spattered all over Manchuris and Bart Siberia and who speak Rassian finently, is pretty large. The Japaness fishermen of Hokkaido and of the west coast of Jap generally require a knowledge of Bussian In order to carry ont successfully their ashing many Chinese capable of expressing themselves (and pouching) enterprises along the const in choige, scholarly Russion as there are Cirineso Saghalien and Kamchatka, and, of coures when any functionary has to be axed," as the Americans say, a colloquial knowledge of his language is almost if not absolutely necessary. KE Undersigned having been appointed
With the greater development of the Siberian AGENTS for the above. Company, fistories and the coast of the Primorsk and prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE Manchuria, the Bassian language will, I think, at Current Rater
become more extensively known among Japanese. WM. MEYERINK & CO.
RUSSIAN CLASSICS 'N JAPANESE.
of the Novi Hongkong, 18th May, 1903.
An article in a recent issue Krai gives some interesting facts regarding the SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE transition of Russian classics into Japanese,
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