Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . being of the people. In most townstrade is active, and there is none of the drowsiness so often seen in some ofthe Korean cities. The entering of Japanese and Russians into the countryhas also contributed to the building up of large cities, conspicuous cases beingthose of Daircn i:ki^) and Harbin Q^WM)- Dairen (:;^i^) is situated in the southern corner of the Liaotung (i^^)Peninsula on the Bay of Talien(;fcjltif5S) When Russia leased the place in 1S98 itwas but a desolate spot with only few scattered fishermens hamlets. There shelaid out and built the luicleus
Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . being of the people. In most townstrade is active, and there is none of the drowsiness so often seen in some ofthe Korean cities. The entering of Japanese and Russians into the countryhas also contributed to the building up of large cities, conspicuous cases beingthose of Daircn i:ki^) and Harbin Q^WM)- Dairen (:;^i^) is situated in the southern corner of the Liaotung (i^^)Peninsula on the Bay of Talien(;fcjltif5S) When Russia leased the place in 1S98 itwas but a desolate spot with only few scattered fishermens hamlets. There shelaid out and built the luicleus of one of the finest cities in the Orient. She, how-ever, was not to sec it in full vigour, for it was only in part built when theRusso-Japanese war liroke out, and at its conclusion the port, together withthe rest of the territory leased by Russia, was transferred to Jn]) after its acquisition th? Japanese changed its original name Dalnyto Dairen, and went on enlarging ai:l it until, in a few years, the. 220. Kambudori vSuliifil. om of Dairens (>C^) business streets. rZ77 —
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