Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14


every year more than $500, 900 koku
of beans are collected here and eX-
ported. From November to the follow
ing March, when the rivers OF Man
churia are all frozen, caravans may
constantly be met with, freighted full
with beans and proceeding toward
Changchun, their drivers filling the air
with the wild din Of shouting, curSing
and laShings. The caravans go home
carrying return freightS of cotton cloth
and other articles Of daily use"
Thought Of Riot.
This afternoon, when we arrived, the
air was filled with shoutings just out
side Of the station. At first we thought
riot was in progress. A great mass
of people appeared, with some SEM
blance of order on the edges. In a
few seconds we saw that the edges
were comprised Of two parallel lines Of
runners" for hotels and eating places
and resorts Of entertainment. They
were yelling aloud their respective at
fractions, each trying to outshout the
others, with the result of volume Of
sound greater than any yet heard by
us from human voices on this side of
the Pacific. And the people streaming
from the train seemed to be quite I'M
ny Vic Va IAlCoC
vocal offerings, passing on without no.
ticing any of the Shouters.
All day we were on the rails, with
stop-off at Kunchuling, about 40 miles
south Of here, to inspect the agricul-
tural experiment station conducted
there by the South Manchuria Railway
for the benefit of the farmers of this
part of Manchuria. It was an inter-
esting exhibition OF japanese enter
prise and foresight The effort is to
cause a larger and better production
Of crops and stock. The purpose is to
make more business for the railway.
there Is another, with a political bear
ing, IS one Of those things that cannot
be learned definitely in this land of
many completes.
One Of the efforts Of the agricultural
experiment station Is to improve the
quality of the Manchurian soy bean,
which has heretofore been inferior to
the Japanese and the Chinese product
After a long series of experiments, the
Manchurian bean has been brought up
to the Japanese standard. Why should
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES South
Manchuria Railway thus seek to create
rival in Manchuria to home
product? The answer may lie In that
strange spirit Of the new Japan, which
is causing her to regard the mainland
Of Asia as her own by right Of race
and contiguity and necessity.
s9-Year Leases.
If better soy beans, and better pigs,
and better sheep, and better horses
can be produced in South Manchuria,
and the farmers here are In conSe-
quence made more prosperous, how will
that condition be to the advantage of
Japan? She has only a lease from
China Of certain lands here, and her
railroad holding is likewise under a
lease. These leases run for 80 years,
presumably from May, 1915. Some day.
of course, the leases will expire. But
Japan confidently expects their renewal,
If meanwhile something has not hap
pened to make them perpetual.
One can never tell what another
decade will bring forth in this part OF
the world. Old as time itself, as 1t
seems, 1t is nevertheless more in a
state Of change now than almost any
other area. Why, even now there are
happenings up at Barbin, where we
are to go on Tuesday next, that may
precipitate a new condition In Man
churia. The Chinese are nagging the
Russians there with raids on consular
offices and an international complica-
ton has arisen. Nobody knows exactly
what caused the raids. or what was
found Of an discriminating or compro-