Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1905-03-24

cLGria. now passed into tie control Of
tie JAPANESE. was described last Au-
gust IN this manner by an American
war correspondent. says the Chicago
Post.
Most cities OF China proper have
7..I2 distinct smells MukGeu has but
G2l4 Ii has been Russianized. aud
wherever possible the Russian has in
trO1uced clean streets. some kind Of a
sewerage system and orderly houses:
hence Mukdeu j. now known ~ the
cleauc>t town Of the many where the
ulrHy Chinese have pre,IOMinLted in
the past
Mukden. known as China's sacred
city" belongs 10 the province Of Shing-
king and Oh the line Of railway run
ming uorth il is about half way be-
tween Newchwaug AID kuaugchang-
tsu, which belongs to the province Of
kiriu,
Now, aside from the fact that Muk-
den holds the sacred tombs Of the an
cieut Mauclu. Or pare dynasty, it
has other Interest Ia that il has been
one OF the worlds central battle points
since LOO years or more before
Christ.
Where Russia and Japan have been
couie>ting longer than Il year race
after race and nation after nation
have hurled themselves against each
other for certainly 800 years. The
sol about Mukdeu. the ranges OF the
Lon. White mountain, the great
stretches vi gray plains have been
suaAt,i with the blood of tens OF thou
sands Of warriors. Ii Is "a Go.gJtha-a
place OF boues-aud the wraiths of
I4eu who have gone 10 their final judg
meut in conquest or plumber.
Dates Ia Chinese or Monaghan his
tory are much mixed. but so FAR as ac-
curacy can he depended upon Mukdcn
Wa, settlement long before Christ
wa born The Prince Of P0hai had
some possessions there about ilU Is. g.
aud at one time Chinese allegiance was
thrown OFF entirely and a centralized
government established with five royal
residences. one of which rose AT Auk-
den Then came khJau from iluiaE,
aud he established the Lao dynasty,
and Mukden, not yet very notable
place but already battle tossed. passed
into other hands. Afterward the
JurchIu had their try, aud they estab-
li,hcd the Kin or golden dynasty and
made Mukden a great trading post
on the central highways.
These highways extended up 10 the
boundaries of the savage tribe, on the
north into Helungkiang and far along
the Amur river-exteuded south the
modern Picking to lIankow, To Can
ton and even into India. Princes OF
the royal blood left Mukden ia those
days uf the beginnings and made two
aud three year pilgrimages 10 India
80 learn strange things from wise men
aud to trade ia jewels and fabrics.
Fifteen hundred years after Christ
was born Nauhachu had his chief seat
Of government In the south Of the Long
White mountain, about loo miles east
Of Muaden. Mukden itself had then
risen ia be one OF the most important
trading points of the north, II has
been stated that It's annual yolWAc Of
business rose into the millions and
that the wealth and fashion Of the
north cOngregated there to bargain.
play politics, love and hate.
f,,l
army for those days before its gates.
Nurhachu had taken TO himself the
title of heaven decreed" and had de
cared war on China. An army Of 200
O0 was sent against him. but, rs the
chronicIerS related afterward:
"He slaughtered all: none returned IL
say of how their end came
Mukdon was captured by him in 1927
after terrific fighting and slaughter.
if we may believe the statiSticianS,
that far exceeds what has recently DC
CURED there All prisoners taken were
promptly beheaded. Liaoyang was cap
tured and made the capital. and sew
enty other cities promptly surrendered
In 1914 the Manchus, risen to great
power, marched into China and placed
one Of their own on the throne Of that
government, and Manchu has ruled
there ever since. In the eighteenth cen
fury Mukden rose TO great cOmmerci2.
and political Importance, but by the
time of the opening of the nineteenth
century, through causes largely due TO
the decay of the Manchu dynasty. the
city declined in Importance. and when
the Russians began their active con
troll of lie community after the Chi,
nese-Japanese war of 1894 they found
II II place of squalor, filth and disease,
The sacred tombs had been pre-.
served. but the city was almost isolat.
ed from the world. its people indolent,
careless out of touch with the world.
The russians made it base of com.
mercial and military supplies, intro
duced some modern methods of santa.
ton and proposed to make il the half.
way station between Port Arthur and
Hardin.
In 5000 years there have been fought
in front of or about Mukden some
twenty odd noted battles of the orient
and it Is conservatively estimated that
within and about the city during that
time more than 5,000,000 men have
been engaged In bloody struggles for
the control Of territory aud govern.
ment,
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