Evening star., 1927-07-27
MUKDEN INCLUDES
THREE CITIES IN ONE
Japanese, Russians and Chi
nese Have Separate Munich
paIities Within Borders.

Mukden, Manchuria, home town OF
China's northern war lord, is really
three cities in one says a bulletin
from the headquarters of the National
Geographic Society.
Modern japanese business and resi-
dental blocks surround the railway
station where the traveller from
Chosen Korea) or Picking alights. y
disreputable vehicle with lines remi-
niscent of old Russia bears the tourist
through a struggling European quar-
ter to the gates of the hishwalled
Chinese city, two miles away. Japan
ese, Russians and Cinnamon meet. but
do not mingle. Each nation has a
city OF its own.
"The Japanese quarter is a splendid
example of colonial efficiency" CON
tinues the bulletin. streets are
straight, broad and hard-paved. Ba.
zaarS are filled with the latest prod
ucts from Japanese farms and fac
tories-luscious yellow persimnlons,
dainty tea sets and gorgeous lowered
cotton kimono cloth done up in one
garment bolts. There are hospitals,
schools and police stations. electric
lighted and presided over by the latest
products of the imperial educational
system. Over the railway station is
an excellent European-style hotel.
complete with brass beds and tile
baths.
International Settlement Near.
"a short drive in the rickety Rus
sian droSke and all is changed. The
cir grows heavier with strange cdors.
Gray brick Russian houses stracgle
along a bumpy road bordered by open
drains, with millet and sweet potato
fields stretching beyond. Occasional
Tecently-built Chinese structures give
the appearance of new patches on an
ancient garment.
This is the so-ca!led international
settlement, and is we'll named.
Wretched-looking White Russian re-
fugees abound. Korean women smoke
their pipes in halfopen doorways.
Occasional European consular COM
pounds form islands OF responsibility.
series of large and gaudy temple
buildings being particularly imposing,
while q stately Georgian structure up.
holds the dignity Of Great Britain.
Suddenly the carriage winds
through a lowered and tortuously-
curved gateway in the wall Of the
Chinese cicy. Uneasy smells increase
into a distinct malodoTous certainty.
One storied gray.brick, gray-tiled
houses line a deeply-rutted roadway.
Blue cotton clothes are worn with the
rnonotony OF uniforms. Cheerful, un-
washed. yellow faces flow past in con.
tinuous streams. Perpetual and stri-
dent bargaining fills the air. Coal
balls. sweet cakes. fly swatters and
boiling tea water are hawked with
shrlll cries and ringing bells.
Palace Dominates City.
such is the ancient Manchu capi-
tai, from which the dynastic throne
was moved to Peking in the seven
teenth century. after the Manchu con-
quest Of China. The huge palace Of
the successors of Ghengis Khan still
emptiness. and tonbs OF Manchu rul-
ers with columned halls and curving
ewes brood in lonely magnifcence il;
forests outside the city walls.
These few heirlooms from a his
toric past lie like soiled jewels in the
Inud-colored monotony OF dirty COM
mercial city. Modern Mukden is
wholly absorbed in trade Lying in
the center OF a rich agricultural plain. |
il forms the meeting point of two |
great railway systems. One. running |
east and west, connects Toxic and |
Chosen (Soreal with Peking: the other, |
north and south, joins Port Arthur
and Dairen to the Transsiberian /,
Railway. A monument to its CONNER
cial Importance, as well as to fallen
soldiers, is the modest war memorial
of the japanese heroes who fell in the
historic battle of Mukden during the
Russo-Japanese War.
Although in the same latitude as
Chicago and Boston, Mukden has a
rather severe climate of the so-called