Evening star., 1932-05-25
MANCHUR|A TO GET
COMMERCE OUTLET
Railway Being Constructed
Across Mountains to
Korean Port.

Manchuria is to have a "side door"
at the Korean port of Seishin, on the
japanese Sea, and a l12-mile railway
Is being constructed through the Korean
mountain wall to link it up with ex-
listing railway lines in Eastern Manchu-
ria. Manchuria. politically and econom-
ically, is like Q box open only ut the
bottom. Mongolia, Soviet Russia and
the mountains Of Korea shut it in on
three sides.
"Seishin. or Chon Chin, Is the prin-
cipal seaport and the largest city of
Northern Korea, or Chosen, as the Jana
nese would have their chief mainland
dependency called" says a bulletin
from the National Geographic Society.
Less than $50 miles up the coast lies
Vladivostok, famous Soviet seaport and
eastern terminus Of the trans siberian
railroad. Seishin has an advantage
over its neighbor, however, In that it
Is more nearly iee-free throughout the
year.
Fish Left to "Rlpen."
Most of the natives of the district
around Seishin are fishermen, using
great nets to bring in mental, a fish
used Us a basis for favorite dish of
the Northern Koreans, called kimshi
KimShi is made frCm onions and garlic,
a whltish doughty substance, a plentiful
supply OF red pepper and a little water.
A flsh which has reached an advanced
stage OF decomposition Is added and
the mess placed to one side to ripen.
Alter several days it is generally con-
sidered to be high enough for the
most discriminating epicure. =
The city of Seishin itself Is a rather
unpretentious community of frame
buildings and vhitewashed 'fanz.s.' or
bungalows. crowded along the curving
shore OF its superb bay by an encircline
ridge OF brown mountains In addition
to fishing, its population carries on an
active trade in lumber, skins and grain.
The main line railroad from southern
Korea and from the provincial capital.
kyoJo. runs several miles inland and is
connected with Seishin by spur.
While the japanese are spending
much money in Seishin constructing
quays, dockyards, railroad sidings and
other engineering works, the visitor
VINO ventures only short distance out
side OF this modern city of $4,000 will
find land Of primitive people and liv-
ing conditions practically untouched by
the devices Of present-day civilization
Use Furnace Method.
"Structuraliy, the native huts are in
teresting. because The Koreans antici-
pated our hot-air furnace BIZ many
hundreds Of years. Every house is
raised foot or two above the ground.
ana wide f1ue runs beneath the floor,
emerging at the other end in a tall
chimney, made, in the north, from a
hollow log. When fire is built at the
entrance Of the flue the smoke and
heat are drawn beneath the house.
keeping the rooms warm during even
the coolest days of Winter
Back in the rugged mountains vii
lages OF tiny huts sit amid little patches
OF oats and millet. White-garbed
natives lounge IN the sunshine, smoking
their long pipes, or perhaps lazily drive
a pair OF huge bulls back and forth
across a field, dragging after them the
primitive wooden plow used by the
Koreans of the north.
Everywhere the curious log water
hammers. made for pounding grain, rise
and fall ceaselessly like things OF life.
Inc hammer Is constructed from a H.
foot log one end of which is followed
deeply. the other being weighted with
a heavy post set at right angles to the
shaft. The log Is so placed that its
concave end will rest under q stream
which has been diverted to flow in the
desired direction, and a tub for the
grain Is sunk deep into the ground.
where the post will fall within.
When the concave portion Is filled
with water the log rises and the water
Is tipped cut; the opposite side then
becomes heavier and the pestle falls
into the tub beneath it; thus the ham
mer alternately rises and falls 90 long
as the water flows This invention
probably came from China. 1t is not
found in Southern OF Central Korea"