The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-09-02

The water courses are dry now. but the
stones and powders that strew the deep
channels show the force with which
the waters rush down the mountain
sides.
Liao-Yang is an ancient Manchurlan
city. with a Russian official suburb of
grey brick detached houses, built in a
sort OF barTack square by the railway
station. Into one corner Of the square
a couple Of railway sidings run, hous-
ing two well-appOinted tTains-the res
idence-cOnveyances of General KurOpat-
kin and the Grand Duke Boris
One Of the larger houses In the square
has couple Of sentry boxes and a
boarded walk in front This Is the
their rifles TO the salute. there Is clank
OF spurred boots, and out strides man
in generals uniform. with bearded.
Tesolute face
plain of the remoteness Of war when l
can look round and see the figure Of
General KuropatEin himsclf-the very
personification Of war.
City of Liao-Yang.
Between the official suburb and the
river moat which runs under the high
wall Of the city is the LiaO-Yang Pago-
da. an elongated dome Of stone, with
the upper half curIously serrated. II
was erected as a memorial OF the eX-
pulsion OF the Koreans from Manchuria;
a trife the worse for wear now, as II
well may be. when two other nations
are struggling for the country, and the
cOnCuerOTs of the Koreans are doing
the coOlie work for them both. The city.
Manchurias ancient capital, Is full OF
life and decay-the kind OF teeming life
that is the product OF decay. The city
wall-it marks an irregular square ABOUT
a mile each way-is the only feature that
suggests sOlidity and stability. On each
uFI
makes painful ZtgZags. gives, or rather
obstTucts, entrance and exit
The practical Russians, who have
much transport work 70 do In and
through the city have found these gates
rather insufficient for their needs, 50
they have simplified the problem by
knocking great breaches in the wall al
convenient points with the result that
the place has a sort Of suggestion Of an
old London theater that Is trying 70
arrange its exits according 10 the re-
quirements Of the county council.
Narrow streets, squalid booths and
/ novels, unspeakable filth and stencil
| and dust teeming life all flooded In
! sunshine-that IS Liao-Yang. The chi
nese seem to be Matched like flies by
the sunshine out Of the decay OF theiI
Through the long central street a
| supply train Is making its slow and
painful way. the heavy wheels OF the
| numbering Chinese carts cutting deer
| into the crumbling earth. Soldiers
! everywhere. through every compound
gateway the sight Of soldiers billeted: al
every booth front and before every
street vendors stall group. Of the
| thickset bigboued. heavyjawed, good
| humOred Siberian soldiers.
Some Social Features.
The social center of Liao-Yang In the
day time IS the big buffet dining room
down at the railway station. This is
the club and the news exchange. Here
| old friends meet after many years
| Brought from far distant parts Of the
| empire by the occasion Of the war
| from the Caucasus, from Finland from
/ lonely Siberian towus-men who have
not seen each other since they fought
| side by side In the Turkish war nov
| meet again as veterans. throw great
| arms around one annLheE-s LurlN figures