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Central, Hongkong. Immediate possosɛion Moderato rentals.

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DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & ̈CO:~

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 16mm, 1988.

RUSSIA AND THE FAR EAST.

The question that is now being asked with 1---- great insistency is: "Is such a strategical lins absolutely nosemary, and may its construction À GREAT BAILWAY SCHEM,

not prove to be the prelude to a now Far Eastern adventare" "In spite of her defest The Ruslan Government has asked the Duma DOUGLAS to consent to the construction of a railway from Russia still retains practically undisturbed Merchinak, in Trans-baikslia, along the pension of the Maucharine Railway down to point no for from Kirin; By the northern bank of the Amur to Khabarovek. The idea is, of coures, hot show one, it formed Trollane of the Portsmouth Treaty the part of the original plan of the Trans-Siberian eng of the forms guarding the line is imited to Afcon men per kilomètre, so that the fine which was abandoned in favour of the number of troops along the Russian section of diversion into Manchuria. Allor the war ad the line is 10 under 30,000. Bus though durgonstrated the insecurity of the position in Articls VII, of the Portsmouth Treaty forbids. Mansharia the idea of a railway slong the employment of the Manchurian Railway for Amur was rerived.

The Government unde strategic purposes there is nothing to prevent | superficial examination of the proposed route and the Russians from stati ulog armies of 100,00 introduced into the Second Dama a Bill for the construction of the line. The Second Domain Traurbaikali) and the Marine region, was dissolved before it had had time to ready on the outbreak of war to converge along the line and krop communication cloar to consider the gasstion, but immediately Vladivostok. The fact that the Manchurian after the dissolution the Cabinat secured Railway passes through Chinese while the an authorisation from the Emperor to Amte Railway would pass through Russian tinue the survey of the route and to begin territory is unt of essential importance. The constrasting the ft at scolion of the line. Borthern districts of Manchuria slồng thờ accordance with the provision of the Fund Amur, which befers the war the Chiness loft montal, Live requiring that monsuras enacted by 156 Government while the Drini & not almost uninhabited, as though desiring to sitting must by submitted to the Date for keep than ives at a safe distance from The approval the Ministry of Ways and Communisie, are now being rapidly tied by Cajons has now already taken, and at the same are partes of colonists from the sonth, points within ten miles of the bank, and it The quiet still under consideratiou in time to give its consent to the whole soleme proposed Amur line would come at many various committees, but the approval of the would not be long before the Chinese would oross the river and settle in the neighbourhood majority is guaranteed. The Dame will adopt the scheme, and, if the money can be found and of the lie. Indeed if, as seems probable, thự labour for its contruction is dru from China, no unexpected hindrance arises, the Aur ulanists who will make all that is to be made Railway will be constructed. Yet the enfor

out of the country will be available on the apt, piite is one which will involve su otermons

only they will not be Russin colonists. For expenditure of money and labour, and enter. priss in which po Government, or Parliament fally conscions of its responsibility would en gage without a very thorough consideration of all the issues involved.

EINE ROOMS on the first floor of No. 34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, (oppo site the General Post Office) The Rooms are Very COMMODIOUS SHOP in Des Voeux Roadlight, spacious sad, well ventilated. moderate rent. Immediate Posession.

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HUMPHREYS ESTATE A

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THE BONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT

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Kres 85.200 square feet and with 255 OWLOON MARINE LOT 48, Yaunat, feet Sea Frontage. Especially suited for Storage of Coal, Timber, &c.

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HUMPHREYS ES PATE &

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HOUSE'in KNUTSFORD TERRACE A KOWLOON.

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SPANISH PROCURATION: Hongkong, 2nd April, 1918.

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years, theu, the fast of the Amur Rail boing in Russian territory will be, it would sem, a very slight advantage from-the pint of view of the defence of Russian possessions in the Far Eart.

A FETORE *OSSURILETT

It cannot ḥa vald that serious danger

trasteax Rash for be present from the side its earlier stages of formation, auf it will b

of China. The Chines: A my is as yạt only in.

aad

pansas Tranty expires, is by no means o improbability. If the Japannes are developing the railway system in Southera M solucia and in Keres, if they are perfecting the aeans of communication so as to facilitate the_transport. of Legopa tu the seat of the list war, it la natural that the tassians in their tara' should wish to mike their quiamuaio iɔas sure. construction of the Amar linn is an attempt.

THE LOCAL CONDITIONS. The distance from Nerchinsk to Khabarovsk long the Amur is fourteen hundred miles, which t about the distaves from St-P-suborg £ Odes, or, as the bird flies, from London to Naples. The country to be traverne 1, is mountainons, and as the soil is prepetilly before it is in a position to take the uffinsire. The Chinsä people has lost, it is Prozed at adoptiof-about-three-fant the work.

true, its old trend of Russia, and the awakening of oxcaration can only be carried out it is going on in China causes snúðarábis slowly. The number of inhabitants in the dignitude to Rossian military men Amar region is at present about 150,019, thờ

who is the easy, and the Araur Bailway is majority of whom live in settlements along the foils. But, after all, it is not as yet Chias river bank, and in the district between the not being built primarily in view of the posti- and Brugs, tributaries of the Amur, er bility of Chiness aggression. The Amur Rvil- Blagoveskehousk. Whether or not the region is adapted for colonisation on a large scalo y le boing built bonas Rassis realises that vry little was decided by the Portsmouth is a point on which there is great spate Tenty, and that a fresh ndist with Japan, The averaga suunal temperature sporhaps after 1915, was the present Anglo- R. (26d-g. F.) and wheat and rve, it is cannot be grown in Refficient quantities to cover Lhe cost of production. Shary frosts in spring may kill the growing carn, and torrential ining in summer may wash out of it all vitality. One botsoist has declared that agricultare on an extensivo soale is cut of the question in the Amur region until a variety of rice can ba discovered hardly enough to endure the pliusto

be, it posants from European Russia with their less the line bo tuilt the Manohariau lige subot by defended, and Russia will to primitive methods of cultivation will be able t

have to retire to the Bikii, Oas may admit colonise successfully the swamps and forest that the bolding of a Japanese railway from for whom it is an absolute necessity that the soil Marine regios and the Vladivostok line to some Country of the inhospitable Amur region. Men

Genssa to the Fiumen River exposes the they till abould yield a crop in the first year are

additional risk. But whether that risk exonst hardly in a position to develop theres arces of a region in which they can only expect a crop after basal sintly guarded against by the mainten ance of a Broag Army in the region, and three or four years oflibur. The naglogy of Mawhether it is so great as to damud the cons

itoha about which pamimists used to say very

truction of 1,400 miles of costly railway, is not THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-mach the kind of thing that is now baing said

MENT & AGENCY CO.

about the climate and resourcas of the Amur at all clear. The Amur Railway, even though Hongkong, 1st April 18

region and in which Dakbebors, Russian pasit serves mas for the transport of scots, are now prospering exceedingly, emgotiaforcements to the Ussuci region and Viadivostok, sad thus relieve the Manoharisu be said to hold good. For one thing the lins, will require a very strong guard, and asy conditions of settlement in Manitobs are auch as the Bussisa Guvernment could, ust be easily become a source of weakness rather than

of strength. posted to provide in the Amur region for very many years to come; and, at any rate, the possibility that at some time the region my prove fitted for coloniation dos not justify the construction of fourteen hundred miles of railway at a cost of at least £10,000,000 at the present moment when there are so many other. things that obviously very badly, want doing nearer the castro.

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HOUSES in Wong Nai Choug Road. No. 10, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, 1st floor. - 70

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3 Queen's Road.

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582

09. 27, 31 and 33, SEYMOUR ROAD.

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.188

ARGE OFFICE ROOM on First Floor

No. 16, DES VEUX ROAD.

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The Amar sehem may be a part of a gran diose policy. It may be a visible affirmation of the fact that Raasia has not abandoned her abi tions in the Far East; but it is just hore that this cause for apprehension lies. For so far Rassin's attempts to realise hor Far Eastern Abitions have only servad to expose her weak nando il some resolute effort has been wale to ramove the cause of her weaknons and' to establish at boma a system of sɔunt govern. ment that will raise the productiva onorgy and national spirit of the people it is surely the verse of somad policy to build in the Amar gion an auproductive railway of doubtini strategies valus. Yet the majcity in the ama are apparently willing that this should be dns, though the fatormation supplied in gard to the character of the proposed routa in a. the very v. 1AS!.

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The Government is now urging that the Amur region is omisently adapted for louisa tion, In this connection it is not out of placɔ to quote on cflcial docainest drawn up tways years ago, when the question of the Manchurian Rallway was under discussion, In regard to the question of the construction of a railway) along the left bank of the Amur," says the d'enment, it must be affirmed that the contraction of such a line would be a wholly justifiible luxury. The climate of the region through which the line mast pas is one of xtreme severity; frozen soil is met w that a very short distance from the bank of the Amur, Te Amour and ile tributaries frequently overflow tair banks in the oara of the summer and Cause flood. The population is extremely sparse, and the construction of a line parnils) with a splodid full-flowing waterwy which entirely ratifies los i words would inevitably bring but a competition between the two ways, and the development of independent navigation on the Amne is absolutely necessary from the standpoint of Imperial as well as of [local interests. All theas considerations taken as a whole seemed to us so serious and o important that when the possibility presented itself of running a line through Chinese territory it was deolded to build it along the right bank of the Amar. There wow the greater justification for this course as the latter line, being 80 verete shorter would be care of getting freights. and, tapping as it would the fertile valley of the Fangari, it wou!! provide az ontlet for the corn the Amur region needs Moreover, it passes through a more fruitfal and far more thickly populated region lying 500 varsta farther south than the left bank liasbe Open at 10 AM, and 4 P.M. daily, Bunday

and possessing a splendid climate. This line connecting Vladivostok with European Russia would subj-et to Russian influence the whola of Manchuria with the pssible exception of the extreme southern part which borders on the Pacifio."

A STRATEGIC BAILWAY-

The Minis'cy of Ways and Communications is as eloquent now in praise of the resources of the Amur region as it was twelve years ago in disparagement. It passes lightly now over the question of the frozen soil; it does not note the fant that the popalation along the Amur lives chi-fly on imported American en The severe alimate is apparently no longer to be considerad se a serions drawback. But it is probably not pary to take the reason of the Ministry of Ways and Communications very seriously in either case, for the real object of the Ame Foheme, like that of the Manchurian sohemer, is obriously not one that can be stated with alear

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