· RUSSIANS IN MANCHU
THE JAPANESE IN KOREA
Reuter's representative has had an interview with Mr. J. W. Davidson, United States Consol at Formors, who has just arrived in England,” after a four months tour in Manchuris and ~Korea. The journey, which was undertaken primarily for the purpose of studying the Siberian, Manchurian, Korean, and Chinase railway systems, was of a most important character, and has yielded an immense quantity of valuable data, which will shortly be publish. ed. Every assistance was given to Me Davidson, who had a special saloon car, which was stopped wherever he pleased. The Consul did not confine himself to the railway route in Manchuria, but visited every city and village of importance in the whole country.
"There are," he said in reply to questione, "many misconception bout Manchuria, and while much has been written about the Man- churia of a few years age, there has been so far little apportunity for the public to know the real facts connected with the Manchuria of today. It has been said that Manchuria could not of itself support an army of occupation, but as a fact the development of the wheat and beef in- dustries has been so rapid that within a very short time the country will be independent of all outside sources for both flour and beef. An ther misstatement is that the Russians are erecting permanent buildings in places away from the railway. In all my travels I found but one building-vic, the Russo-Chinese Bank at Taitsikar—which could at all be regarded as a
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PROSPECTS OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN
TRADE.
Turning to the four look for British and American trade in Manchuria, the Consul Baid
"The occupation of Manchuria by Russia will not so seriously affect British
trade Attierican trade, for the reason that the products at present shipped into Manchuria from England are not largely produced in Rus
is, whereas, in the case of American goods the four principal items are those of which Russia is a natural and large producer. These things are kerosene oil, colton goods, flour and lumber. The Russo-Chinese Bank has taken an agency for all Manchuria for Russian, oil, and as there are branches in all the principal cities which | practically control the banking business of Manchuria, they are naturally able to give more favourable treatment to their customers.
"The production of wheat in Manchuria is increasing to a phenomenal degree. It is much cheaper than the wheat of America or Russia proper, and its manufacture into four is very profitable; consequently flour millare aptinging up everywhere, and the city of Harbin alone will from the beginning of 1904 produce 800,- coolb, of flour daily,
"It is consequently necessary for America to develop her trade along entirely new lines. The occupation of Manchuris has created a market for machinery and stores which can be supplied to advantage from America. The Russians will undoubtedly teach Chinese the use of modern agricultural machinery, and there must then arise a great demand for agricultural machinery which America should be able to supply.
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of Nervous Tone, Wasting Dleases, Bron- chitis, La Grippe, Lung Troubles and Imtern of general interest, purities of the Blood. Science can furnish nothing better-perhaps nothing so good. Dr. W. H. Dalfe, of Canada, says: "I have used it in my practice and take pleasure in recommend- "One-trade created by the Russian_occupa-ing it as a valuable-tonic-and-reconstructive... tion is the beer trade. This has gone entirely It is a remedy that can afford to appeal to its record and represents. the science and know Asked as to Russia's position in Manchuria, to America, for only American beer is con
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"I must keep away from politics, and can only say this, that the general impression i gathered was that Russia would give Japan a free hand in Kerea in return for similar privileges in Man. churia. There is an idea that the natural out. fat for Japanese surplus population is Formosa, but this can never be. Formosa is a tropical country, and the laree Chinese population is supported entirely by agriculture. Japanese are unable to work in the fields exposed to the tropical sun, and the fact is that during the eight years of Japanese occupation the Jacan. ese population has grown but little, there being at present, exclusive of the military, only some 40,000 subjects of the Mikado in the whole island, and there is very little likelihood, of this number increasing. On the other hand, Korea is the natural outlet for Japanese surplus population for two reasons. The climate is
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more like that of Japan, and the dullness and | 14 Queen's Road, comparative stupidity of the average Korean enables the Japanese to compete more favour- ably with him than with the keen and industrious Chinaman of Formons. The result is that even at present more Japanese are in Korea than there are in Formosa,
RUSSIA'S STRENGTH IN MANCHURIA. "Regarding Russia's strength in Manchuria, every place of importance on and off the rail. road is held by troops, whose number, inclusive of the garrison of Vladivostok, is not less than
200,000.
"It is a fact that the Russians are occupying Every city of even the most trifling importance in Manchuria, but except for a few immigrants who have commenced farming on a very small scale near Hailar, the old Mongolian capital in Northern Manchuria, there is no evidence of any attempt to bring immigrants into Manchuria for the purpose of the occupation of agricultural Jands. There is a spirit of commercial unrest as to the future of the country. I found in the remoter cities that the Russian shopkeepers were very doubtful as to the duration of the occupa- tion, so much so that they refused to invest heavily in commercial enterprises, The Russian position along the line of railway is, however, quite another matter, and splendid cities are springing up along the track. From a commer- cial standpoint Harbin is the foremost. But three years old, this place has a Roslan popula tion exceeding 40,000, and in its rapid growth and general social conditions resembles very closely a "boom" mining to all America. With its large flour pil
octant
bility
wholesale establishmently, which will make it in a fow, you not only tha greatest market of Manchuriat in my opinion one of the most importapt cities of the Far East. Hore an administrative building in being erected at a cost of £110,000. There is. a commercial school costing £50,000, ■! technical school costing £15,000, and eight ather schools for teaching Chinese Russian, and Russian Chinese. Harbin" will be the great railway centre for all Manchuria, and en. gine shops costing £15,000 are in course of erection. A hospital, open to all nationalities, is being built for £42,000.
PORT ARTHUR'S ATTRACTIONS. "The new town of Port Arthur is being con- structed on lines which will make it the most attractive residential city in China. The Gov. erament Board requires that every building erected skall have architectural beauty, and the Chinesa are not permitted to live or build in the new town. The result is that the city,"
which already has a population of 20,000, is one of ex- ceptional beauty. It has often been reported that Admiral Alexsieff favoured Port Arthur, and that Daley would therefore lose its com mercial importance. On this point the Russian Viceroy himself told me that he had encouraged the construction of retail shops in Port. Arthur ́ng that the soldiers might be able Nobuy la a cheap market. It was, however, Hils Intention that Dalny should be the great commercial and manufacturing city, and all applicants who wished to erect factories in Port Arthur were. always told that they must be built at Dalny.
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