Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-30

understand the roaming herds of that
country pasture on these lands. There
is undoubtedly coal and oil in abund-
ance. It has not been developed or
prospected. The precious metals are
reported There is opportunity for
everyone, / believe. There is more
latent wealth in Manchnria. and trans
Balkailia than in any place in the
world. 1t is a land / where every
prospect pleases and only man is
vile." really believe that sometime
in the future, how soon / cannot pre-
dict, that there will be such rush
Ito that country as there was to the
Klondike few years ago. Manchuria
is worth while, and it is white mans
country.
Let me take your attention down
from Hardin through Mukden to Dali
Iney. After leaving Hardin every inch
of that immense plain is cultivated.
Even the paths grow the oil bean. 1t
is all Kao ling and oil bean. 1t was
over this plain that the great battles
of the Russo-Ja Japanese war was fought.
but that is another story. The Japan
csc won the war, vest, but Russia was
not beaten by any means. Late mil
itary authorities are giving Kuropat-
kin credit for being one of the great
est generals of all times. He fought
dozen of the largest battles recorded
in history and never lost an army.
When the war ended Russia was bet
ter entrenched with finer army than
at any time during the war and at the
same time Japan had reached the end
of her resources.
1t came out recently in The Japa-
eral Okuu, that has made historians
re-write history. The dispatch was
short. 1t merely read: 100000
more troops or peace" and signed,
Okuu. To me. the study of conditions
working up to the coming struggle in
eastern Asia is the most interesting
phase.
Mukden is a Chinese city with only
few white people. Dalny. which
is now called Dairen, is free port
and the terminus of the South Man
churia Railway which runs to near
Hardin. This railway also branches
on at Mnkden and runs from Mukden
to Seoul through northern Korea and
down to Fusan at the southern end of
Korea. Port Arthur has been dis
mantled, except Golden Hill and
Tiger Trail forts which guard its en-
trance. I explored the place. Climbed
203 meter hill, saw the havoc worked
| by the big guns, noticed how the
Japanese had placed shells so as to
explode every ten feet along the
Russian trenches to expose them.
The havoc made by the explosion of
mines and big guns was something
terrible There is one lesson ]
learned. and that is that man, especi-
ally every public man, should lend
what influence he has to prevent war.
War has no place among civilized
peoples.
cannot take up Korea tonight
That is still another story. The trip
from Dalny to Kobe takes three days
and three nights by steamer. 1t is
through the Yellow sea. What is es-
pecially interesting is the Korean
Archipelago composed of thous-
ands of little islands dotting the coast
OF western and southern Korea. The
steamer runs In between them day
and night. Lighthouses are numerous
and one is never out of sight of two
| of them at any time. There Islands
are beautiful Mostly uninhabited
except by fishermen. At Moi and
! Shimoncshek you enter the Inianc
sea of Japan. In all my life I have
never seen anything more beautiful