The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-06
RUSSIA IN MANCHUR|A
The Chinese Are Afraid of the
Invaders.
THEY DO AS THEY PLEASE
AL Visitors Are Swallowed by the Sol
diers of the Czar-Korea Has Ig-
nored Its Friendship for Rus
sia-Chinese Refugees.

Vancouver, B. c., April 5.-Advices
from the Far East brought by the
steamer Empress of Japan state that a
correspondent of the North China Daily
News gives some remarkable informa-
ton regarding the Russian progress in
ManG1uria and the northern provinces.
He points out that whereas the only
British subjects who are permitted by
treaty ito own land outside treaty limits
are missionaries, Russians in Man
churia are acquiring land as they please
and are already working mines. The
railroad, too, is obviously a military
one and he asserts that there are 5000
Russian troops at Port Arthur 5000 at
Talien-Wan, 1000 at Kin Chou, 200 a
LUNCHEON, 200 at Wa Fang Lien, 200 al
New Chwan, 200 at Haichieng. 200 at
Lao Yang. 200 at Korin, 10000 at Hal
pion, north of Korin, and in fact Rus
sian soldiers are all over Manchuria.
They are to be met With even where
the railway does not touch. In Hal
chieng the Russians have taken shop
and fortified it by mounting guns At
Lao Yang they have site 200 yards
square, where they are building bar
racks, and 300 soldiers with 20 officers
and mining engineers are quartered
there. Outside the city they are pur-
chasing land and intend to occupy
houses for the summer. The Chinese
officials and people are much afraid of
the intruders, who do just as they like
and square any circumstances with a
few dollars.
Visitors to the locality cannot move
without being Swallowed by Russians
AS there is no railway at Korin and the
branch line which is projected will not
reach there for two or three years, the
presence of soldiers appears unnecrs-
sary. The Russo-Chinese bank has
opened branch in Korin, worked by
Chinese, with one foreigner. who is
British, but little beyond political work
appears to be done.
AT Haipion, where the railway will
branch off from the main line to Vladiv-
ostock, there are Russian settlements
with 10000 soldiers. Ii is instructive to
compare this military occupation with
the railway in which British capitalists
are to have their money, a good road
with stone entertainments and work
shops along the line Where carriages
and bridges are being built and not yet
one British soldier to protect 'the prop
erty.
The agricultural and mineral re-
the Russians are working so as to eX-
plot them for their sole advantage.
The land is being compusorly ac-
quired at the rate of $40 a NOW. and
in the event. of Chinese resistance a
telegram to the Russian minister at
Pekin OVercOmeS it.
Korea is in trouble with Russia over
the recent seizure of a Whaer The
Seoul Dispatch says that the Russian
minister sent an official note to the for
eign office stating that the text of the
agreement with regard to whale fish
ing. concerning which negotiations had
been going on between Count Keiser-
ing and the Corean government for
some time, was drawn up several
weeks ago and was to be signed within
five days. The COrean government fail
ed however, to fulfill it's promise and
the agreement still remains, unsigned
This proves that the Corean govern
ment has ignored it's friendship for
Russia
1t is reported at Toxic that foreign
officers have offered Kang WI Wei and
and other Chinese refugees in Toxic to
leave Japan after presenting them with
large sum of money Therefore, Kang
WI Wei and other Chinese refugees
will shortly proceed to America and
Europe. Count Okuma is reported to
have raised their expenses.
The Japan Herald says that the prin-
cipal employees until recently Of the Ma
tional bank at Kyoto must have been
a lot of scoundrels, as the charges
against them, which have been for.
months under investigation, amount to
infringing banking regulations, en-
bezzlement of trust money uttering
and forging documents and obtaining
money under false pretenses. They were
all committed for trial.