The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-30
COMPLETION OF THEIlTRANS-3
SIBERIAN RAILWAY LINE

export trade in Eastern Asia, the above
mentioned railway company has organ
ized a regular service Of steamers along
the Pacific and the river Sungari, which
flows through the most thickly populat-
ed and industrial part of hIanchuria-
On the shores of the unfrozen Yellow
Sea and Ta-Iien- Wan. one of the ter
mini of the great transcontinental rail
way, by the orders of the emperor,
Nicholas IL, the port and town of Dal-
ny have been established. Dalny is a
free port. However large the cost of the
railway may be, it is insignificant in
comparison with the commercial and
strategic advantages heIu out to Rus
STA by the exploitation of the shortest
railway route between the Atlantic and
the Pacific, in conjunction with the
stimulation of the rich productive pow
ers of a vaSt country like Siberia and
the development of Russia's commercial
intercourse with the countries of East
ern Asia.
THE SITUATION IN AIANCHURIA.
Protests are being loudly made in the
press of the Russian Far East, says the
Moscow correspondent of the Standard,
against the freedom with which, 1t is
alleged. foreigners are permitted to traV-
erse Manchuria. The japanese espe-
clallN, say lOcstl papers, SlIG lidNtiAAAi9 ~
and fro in large numbers under every
possible pretext, but generally armed
with cameras with which they take
carefully selected points of interest all
along the new railway: the cares are
noted, the surrounding features of the
country, and so forth. The Russians APP
pear to think that the Japanese are en-
gagged in surveying the land for military
purposes. It must be remembered, how
ever that the camera craze is by no
means so far advanced in Russia as else
where, and possibly the press has mis-
taken earnest tourists for dangerous mill
itary spies. Russian authorities are rare
" too liberal in their treatment of trav-
ellers reaIy qualified to give valuable
information OF what they see.
Four hundred peasants have been
charged at the BlagOvestchensk Police
Court with stealing timber remaining
after the burning of villages by the Man
chus." They were all acquitted, but
whether on the technical point that there
We're no such villages to steal from or on
general grounds of policy, is not stated
in the report The village burning was
done by the Russians; and as 1t was aft
erwards found that there were great
treasures in some of them, presumably
buried, stringent regulations forb!dding
Russians to exploit any of the burnt-out
spots, were among the first orders issued
by the authorities, who then began the
search for the buried silver themselves.
Several million roubles' worth was found
in one place. 1t was supposed to be Ell
Their the hoard of local Chinese official
or the pay chest OF some Boxer army.
COTTON IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Says the Manila Times: An impression
hitherto existed that, Notwithstanding
the known fertility of the SOIL cotton
would not grow in the Philippines This
false impression should be now entirely
removed by a communication received in
Manila from an official of Davao, Min
danao. This letter states that the writer
had received from a Bagoba native a
sample of cotton which had been grown
from seed which the writer himself
brought from America last year. and
gave to the Bagoban to experiment
with
The sresult appears to have been so
satisfactory that the cotton is stated by
the author of the communication men
toned to be of ''as fair a sample as one
will find in the bottoms of the MISSISSIPPI
pi." The BagObas are collecting and saw
ing the seed so as to plant more, and
make it one Of their industries.