Neuralgia,
Nervous Breakdown-
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914.
THE FAR EASTERN SCENE.
II ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN
RAILWAY
BY VIOLET MARKHAM IN THE WEST MINSTER GAZETTE.”"]
The Trans-Siberian has robbed me of one illusion. Prior to my journey over- land to Peking I had regarded with a certain respect travellers who had crossed Asia by this route. The great railway still figures in popular imagination at home as something rather mysterious and adventurous, many people connecting it vaguely with difficulties and perils unknown to tourists who go down, to the ses in ships. Hence a certain pro- stige attaching to the persons of those who have safely surmounted such obsta cles. But truth compels me to state that the journey between Moscow and Peking is as little adventurous and presents as few perils as a trip between London and Margate. It is impossible to give oneself the airs of Marco Polo on the strength of such a expedition. The revolution which the rans-Siberian bas effected in the whole values of Eastern travel is. one which as yet has scarcely penetrated into the consciousness of the travelling public. People still talk and think of China and Japan as remote, inaccessible countries, forgetting that Peking: has been brought within twelve and Tokio and Shanghai within fourteen days transit of London. There are three trains weekly, the International express and two Russian State trains, one vid Moscow, the other via St. Petersburg, The international is the most expeditious
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As for the journey, it is simplicity itself. One enters a luxurious train de luxe at Moscow of the ordinary wagon lits typo, the coaches being divided into a series of two-berth cabins. A week later one exchanges it for another equally luxuri- ous at Irkutsk. Three days later a change of gauge at Chang Chun necessitates another new train, which, after a further change at Mukden on to the Peking Mukden line, deposits one finally at Peking Passengers to Japan go straight through from Moscow to Vladivostock without any change at all. The journey may, and does, vary in comfort. Indivi- dual cars are cleaner and more comfor table, individual conductors more civil and helpful than others. Similarly the restaurantear may minister more or less. efficiently to the demands of the greedy. Heat and cold, overcrowding or the reverse, company pleasant or unpleasant on board, are all different conditions resulting in different impressions. Hence, no doubt, the extremely varied opinions which may be heard about the Trans-Siberian Railway Personally, I set out with a very open mind as to what I was likely to find, so conflicting were the reports I had heard. I can only state that my own experiences were of the most placid aad uocventful kind, and that when in search of adventure I shall not look for it in future along the line of the Trans-Siberian
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Siberia, in fact, strikes one at a leis beautiful and less prosperous Canada. I was reminded, turn by turn of the scenery in New Ontario, in Baskatche was, and Manitoba. Hour after hour the train rolls through an interminable succession of cornfields, varied by clover, potatoes, and cabbages. Except in the neighbourhood of Lake Baikal there nothing remarkable along the route" in the way of scenery, save the claim which lies in open spaces and a wide sky-line, other gorgeous apparitions, while The Urals are low-wooded hills, pretty magnificent personage hung with medale villages become common, and between a familiar object in the fields, Walled but not imposing. In the course of the back and front, who might have en the Chang Chun and Mukden, a district SKIN twelve-days journey between Moscow and Generalissimo of the Urals, mounted infested by brigands, isolated and farm Peking some wooded and undulating guard over the grandess' baggage. At the houses are protected by walls with loop- country is traversed, but in the main end of the station the country fulk and holes for firing purposes. But the great steppe yields place to steppe, plain to peasants who had come to watch the train plain still persists, though now we have such as ECZEMA, SCROFULA, BAD LEGS, plato, from Russia through Manchuria were being schooled by a detachment of passed into golden fields of kaoliang-the ABSCESSES, ULCERS, GLANDULAR SWELLINGS, and Chibli. Here and there great rivers Cossacks in practical methods of how to greater millet and Soya beans. The Bons. FiMPLES, ERUPTIONS, PILES, BLOOD like the Volga, the Obi, and the Yenise car themselves reverently and lowly country is closely cultivated and evidently POISON, RHEUMATISH, GOUT, &c., should at are crossed, vant chilly waters, the two towards their betters. It was a long carries a large population. One has an latter at least seemingly na deserted as platform, and I wandered down to the odd sensation of having overshot the East as lotions, ointments so-called balms, &c., the lands through which they flow. Few far end of it to find a sharp contrast in the East any way of the Bible and the though they may give relief for the time once realize that outward application, such cities of any importance are encountered 4 group of emigrante sitting on their Arabian Nights and of having arrival being, DO NOT CURE. The trouble les on this long transit. The domes of Omsk bundles-too apathetic to investigate the one knows not where. This great heavily deeper in the blood. These complaints are rise unexpectedly out of the plaina military display in progress near at cultivated plain under a grey autumn the result of clogging impurities in the blood straggling town which some enterprising
hand. Danes have made a centre for the butter The Omsk emigrants faced me with that Belgium or Lombardy, not the land of the
sky is neutral and colourless suggeste—and so trade. Eat in some strange way the look of patient mute inquiry to common mandarins. It conveys nothing at first railway seems to avoid the neighbourhood ONLY BY PURIFYING THE BL of such cities as exista circumstance due, coat while the father wont cold, a mother the Near East. Mukden, the ancient it is said to the corruption of the cor-hugging a baby, a man who looked up in capital of the Manchus before their con- tractors, who unless heavily bribed by the a dull way--and then the bell rang and quest of Peking, with its native city and local authorities had always some excel was running for dear life back to the its Imperial tombs, was to be my first lent reason for carrying the railway in train
So they pass, these fugitive true introduction to the Far Eastern another direction, Tomsk, a large city, figurts of the road, as we, the passengers scene. Of Peking I must speak in a is for this reason only to be reached from of the great express, flesh by in the com- subsequent article a junction on the main line."
fort and luxury of our sleeping-cars. But can we realise these contrasts without the denunciations of Tolstoy of our whole social order assuming a new and discon- certing aspect
The outstanding impression of the Trans-Siberian therefore is over whelmingly that of a ribbon of iron running through a vast and sparsely populated agricultural country. It is Irkoutz is reached on the seventh day difficult as the days glide by to bear in of the journey from Moscow and at this mind the activities of East and West point the whole train and personnel between which it forms the link for the changes, It is a large town finely situated huge"knanema, commercial, an I political on rising ground above the river Angara, concerns which its advent tends more and and with its large domes and handsome more to revolutionise. The occasional buildings is an imposing looking place. villages are a collection of hovels all Known as the Paris of Siberis, Irkontz huddled together, lacredibly dirty and has the chilly distinction of being one of sordid in appearance There is little to the coldest cities in the world. -I dare not distinguish the houses of the peasants risk how many degress below zero the from the sheds of the cattle. All alike thermometer falls in winter time; the are made of roughly dressed logs held brief summer temperature being corres together by hay or mass instead of pondingly high. The run along the morlar. One is struck by the fact that shore of Lake Baikal is the one really for miles ona may never see house, and beautifully part of the journey We were yet along the line at least there is lucky in our whether, and as the train cultivation all the way Under a pro-wound in and out of the numerous gressive Government this would be one tunnels it was as though the blue watera of the greatest farming centres in the of the lake made holiday with the heavens world. The peasants must live at con- above while the great mountains freshly serable distances from the scene of their powdered with snow shone serenely in the labours, for isolated houses or farine distance. Here for the first time we saw appear to be non-existent, the population convicte engaged on railway construction, being gathered together in the villages for Russia is working indefatigably at the whether from choice or compulsion I doubling of the line between Chelyabinsk and Harbin, and round Baikal, where the bills are precipitous and fall sheer into the water, the task must be costly and difficult must
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