The Cairo bulletin., 1908-04-20
TERROR RE|GNS
IN MANCHUR|A
JAPANESE AND RUSSIANS ARE
BLAMED FOR OlsoRDERLY
CONDITIONS.
LIFE A CHEAP ARTICLE
In Town OF Harbin after dark--At
Mukden Japs Have Constituted
Themselves Tyrants-openly
Insult Europeans.

London. April ia partleularl
interesting description of condition
in Harbin and Mukden. In view of III,
recent discussion over the governmen
lef Harbln and the trouble with Jap
anese at the American consulate Ii
Mukden, Is collected I'm letter writ
ten by the correspondent att Pekir
for the Reuter- agency The letter
dated March 20 follows:
During "A recent tour in Manchuria
| visited Harbin. A remarkable state
Of affairs exists there. The Russian
town is governed and ominated by a
private railway company, the Chinese
Eastern Railway the chairman OF
which styles himself the civil gvern-
or
The government of the company
can net be regarded as satisfactory.
Neither life nor property is safe. anil
1t it as much as a mans life is worth
to venture out after dark. 1t Is impos-
sible to send telegram after the sun
has gone down, as nobody can he in.
duced to risk his life for love or
money to go to the imperial Chinese
telegraph administration, which Is in
the Chinese town some distance away,
nor can a telegram he delivered In the
Russian town after dark for the same
season.
Arson is Rampant.
THE Russian railway telegraph
works indifferently. 1t is often found
that letter is delivered more quick.
" than n telegram. What strikes one
aps,-sa~s,a -~~A .h-e -p,.asiasa taun is fha
and tho soldiers, who are there do no
police work, much as 1t Is needed.
"Trade is at n standsill and prac.
tically will continue SO as long as
present conditions last The Russians
themselves grumble at the lack OF
money in the place Fires are con.
stant, and in a good many eases arson
with a view TO securing insurance
is attempted.
Should municipal regulations be
enforced in spite Of the protests which
the Chinese government has made to
the foreign powers, a serious state OF
affairs will result trade and business
will be cramped and. a
precedent created for the Japanese to
do the same in South Manchuria,
Japs Insult Europeans.
zone of the chief things which
strikes the visitors tc Mukden and
Souh Manchuria is that the Japanese,
who are pouring into the country. are
not by any means of the right class.
During the war the Chinese and 9th
ers looked upon the Japanese as thei-
saviors and welcomed them: but later
experiences have changed all that.
TN the streets one sees many Jap.
anese drunk and disorderly, and their
behavior to Europeans is often one OF
open insult An English resident told
me that one night as he was driving
through the city in his cart Japan,
ese suddenly spring onto II and in
sisted on sitting on the shaft. The men
rpGused 10 g-l down when asked to do
so. and only yielded TO force.
Grave Social evil.
Ladies complain OF tie japanese
letter carriers, who push Chinese ser
wants aside and burst into their draw.
ing rooms throwing on the floor or on
the tables their bundles of letters. The
Chinese complain that the Japanese
do not pay house rent.
More serious still Is the presence
cf a social evil of the worst sort
from which the Japanese authorities
derive revenue