The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-08-12

Of the inlets or TaIienwan pay Uis,ancs
| to Port Arthur about twenty-five niles
Chief terminus of the Transsiberian rail-
way. Recently evacuated by the Rus
| SLAMS after it's defense was seen to Do
impracticable.
ELLIOT GROUP.-An irregular chain
Of islands fifteen miles in extent off east
coast Of Liautong peninsula. Seized by
the Japanese at the beginning of the war
and made their base for operations
against Port Arthur.
FENGwANGCiENG. = rhe Gate es
Korea" and great emporium for KoreaA
trade Distant about forty miles from tho
YAlu 1t was here that the Chinese OflS-
cials used to meet the Korean embassy
on It's annual journey to Peking to pay
tribute. Early in the present war tho
town was the central position of the Rus
SLAMS in southwestern Manchuria.
FUCHAU.-A departmental city with
Mantchoo garrison in Liautong peninsula,
close to the Manchurian railway.
FuSAN.--Chicf treaty port in southern
Korea, with fine commodious harbori at
the bottom of the deep. well sheltered
bay. Connected by submarine cable with
Japan, 125 miles distant. Japan has land
ed large bodies OF troops here and is push
Ing forward the construction of the rail-
way to connect Fusan with Seoul.
HAGI.-A Japanese port on the west
coast of Niphsn, facing Fusan Japan is
| said to have secretly fortified the place
| and connected it by good road with
Hiroshima
HAICHENCi.--A walled CITY, well adapt
ed for Defense about thirty miles east Of
Newchwang. During the WARMTH China
| the Japanese fortified the place and held
| 1t for nearly y year.
| HAkODATI.- Japanese fortified naval
| station and doclsyard in Yesso, on the
| north side of Tsugaru strait. nearly oppo-
| site Nladivostok on mainland, from which
| II Is 43O miles distant.
| HARBIN,--lmportant place on TRANSIT
berian railway and junction of lines from
Vladivostok and Port Arthur, respective
| ly 45s and GEO miles distant. It4is mn inn
mense Russian camp, most OF the troops
and stores In Manchuria being kept there.
! The town Is only four years old and has
| already population OF LII, 000
! HSINMINTUN.--Nor terminus Of 4
| Chinese Northern railway, distant sixty
| miles from Mukden.
HUNCHUN,-- Fortified town IN Manchu-
| ria, close to border OF Russan primofss
province a Mantchoo garrison is sta
| toned here for the defense OF the from
! tier. 4:
INLAND sEA.--Betwcen Niphon and
| Shiioku. with two entrances from the Pa Il
cific both strongly fortified.
/ JAPAN.--An island empire extending
| 200 miles along tho eastern coast OF
Asia, consisting of five principal islands
i 80 C,t,;i,
Formosa, with many hundreds of smaller
ones Area. 10000 square miles, or about
twice the size Of Great Britain. Popula-
| ton 100000.
/ KA1CHOW.-Same as Kaiping.
| kAIPINCh.--District city near the Liau-3
/ tong gulf, a short distance south Of New
! chwang. It is on the Manchurian rail-
way, which here rims close to the coast,
and is one of the many good points for
the landing Of a hostile army.
KAsAN.-A good anchorage on the
northwest coast of Korea
kIIABAROYSA.-Rus town Of TO-
i ~ .nhapltnnts at the junction OF Ussuri
and Amur rivers until lately the resi-
dence of the governor general of tho
Amur and Maritime Provinces and Trans
baikalia. Connected by railway with
vladivostok, All miles distant s PA
KAIoCHAU. - German possession on
south coast OF Shangtung promontory, in
north China. Acquired on lease from
1 China. in 1893 for a term Of ninety-nine
i years.
KINcHAU.--A point OF great strategic
value situated ON the narrow neck OF
land just above Port Arthur. The sea
! here Is visible from tho railway on both
4 sides. the country being quite hat. Yes
t5ti,
water
KIRIN, Capital Of central Mancnuria
on the Sungari. 1t Is famous fol- the
beauty Of its situation and is entirely surs
rounded by hills except to the SOUTH
where the river flows. sSj
i KoREA.--A peninsula stretching SOUTH
4 ward from Manchuria. Length GOO miles,
extreme breadth 150 area equal to that OF
Great Britain. Eastern Korea is a noun
famous ridge. the spurs reaching down In
many places to the sea. There Is only q
weak tide here, and the coast, which has \
some fine harbors, Is always free from
Ice. In the western half of the peninsula
the country slopes gradually down to the
i Yellow sea, the coast line being broken
by shallow and tortuous inlets shielded
4 by an archipelago Of islands where the
tide rises thirty to forty feet and the
sea Is frequently frozen. Population 20,
00000. The army. which has been reor-s
ganized under Japanese supervision, num-
bers %, 200. Korea owes her independence
to Japan. Until the Chino-Japanese war
y she acknowledged the suzerainty Of, Chi
i ma; but under the treaty OF Simonoseki,3
China renounced her claim. Since that
4 date Japanese influence has been steadily
increasing, and before war broke out
there was a large resident population Of
Il japanese, who owned most OF the ship
ping and foreign trade
4 KOREA STRAIT Separates Japan and
Korea. The island Of Tsushima divides It
into two channels. The western channel,
called Broughton strait, iH thirty-forr
"a miles wide, and the eastern. Krrzenstern
Il strait, is twenty five miles wide.
4 KUNSAN.-Korean treaty port on tho
Yellow sea, at the mouth Of the Yong
dang river. s.8sss lai
KUPANGTsE.-A junction on the Chi
nese Northern railway where the lines
Y from Newchwang and Hsinmintun meet
KURE-Near Hire oshima, on SaeS Icsapd9
sea- The second largest nayaiS oEdenal IN
Japan, with drydocka and arm sar plate
works. 81 ~ Ar
h KWANGTUNG.-The ne name given to tha
! territory In the Liautong peninsula fac-s
y qliired by Russia In 1899; bounded on the
& north by a. line drawn from Ftiiat item az
the head Of an inlet on west coast. to-
PitseWo. avillage on east coast Of the
"a peninsula.
KYENEHEUNG. Russo Korean trad-S
ing mart on the Tnmen river. ss VI
2 LAKE BAIKAI.-Am Immense freAh
q water lake covering ansarea OF 800 miles
81 pa the ltno OF the ranssaEef1an xailWayss
NJ IN which It sfesEnH the on IL breA 1staata
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