LRichard's ..Comprehensive geography of the Chinese empire and dependencies ..translated into English, revised and enlarged . m Offices established at the frontier. — TheSouth Manchurian Railway Company carries on a steam servicebetween Dalny, Shanghai, and Hongkong. Coal is the principalexport article. Industry and Commerce. — Manchuria has displayedup to the present but little industrial activity. There arehowever a considerable number of sorghum distilleries andbean-oil factories. Gold mines and collieries are also somewhatactively worked. Commerce occupies an important place. The principal
LRichard's ..Comprehensive geography of the Chinese empire and dependencies ..translated into English, revised and enlarged . m Offices established at the frontier. — TheSouth Manchurian Railway Company carries on a steam servicebetween Dalny, Shanghai, and Hongkong. Coal is the principalexport article. Industry and Commerce. — Manchuria has displayedup to the present but little industrial activity. There arehowever a considerable number of sorghum distilleries andbean-oil factories. Gold mines and collieries are also somewhatactively worked. Commerce occupies an important place. The principalexports are beancake, beans, bean-oil, furs, skins and wild imports are cotton piece-goods and yarn, kerosene oil,sugar, coal and matches. Highways of Communication. — Besides the greatwaterways (the Amur, Sungari, Nonni and LiaoJioJ, Manchuriahas several important land routes. The principal is that whichstarts from Peking ^fc ^, ^^^ proceeds to Siberia, via KinchotvFu 1^ ^]\ J^, Mtikdetif Kirin, Petuna, Tsitsihar and Mergen(these two last in the Province of Hehlungkiang). 502 BOOK II. OUTER RAILWAY SYSTEM OF MANCHURIA. CHAPTER I. MAKCHURIA; 503 Railways In Manclinrla. — Manchuria has 2 principalrailway lines : the Chinese Eastern railway, and the Shanhai-kwan-Mukden railway. 1*. The Chinese Eastern railway has been financed andconstructed by the Russo-Chinese bank. It traverses E. to , then from N. to S., from the Siberian frontierin Hehlungkiang to Port Arthur, at the Southern extremity ofRegents Sword. Entering from Transbaikalia, on the ,the line passes via Hailar, Tsitsihar and Harbin. Here it bran-ches S., passing via Changch*un ^ ^ and Mukden, and finallyending at Port Arthur. The total length of this line is 1,200miles. From Harbin, a branch runs Eastwards to Vladivostock,a distance of 300 miles within Chinese territory, and 100 inthe Russian province of Primorsk. By the treaty of Portsmouth,signed Sept. 5, 1905, Ru
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