Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . ountries. ^lany of these countriesstill keep a garrison here to ensure the peace of these regions. Exclusivesettlements arc assigned to different powers, such as Great Britain Prance,Japan, Italv, Russia, and Belgium. Among these the British and trenchsettlements, JDcing the oldest, are in the most flourishing condition, and thelapanese settlement is fast growing in prosiDcrity. Great improvementshave also Ix^en made in the old native quarters; to cite an instance, the oldwall has been razed anil its place taken by a wide modern road on which now run electric c
Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . ountries. ^lany of these countriesstill keep a garrison here to ensure the peace of these regions. Exclusivesettlements arc assigned to different powers, such as Great Britain Prance,Japan, Italv, Russia, and Belgium. Among these the British and trenchsettlements, JDcing the oldest, are in the most flourishing condition, and thelapanese settlement is fast growing in prosiDcrity. Great improvementshave also Ix^en made in the old native quarters; to cite an instance, the oldwall has been razed anil its place taken by a wide modern road on which now run electric cars. -, r-o-i oc oi which the exports took up Ilk. Tls. r,l,1S0,, and the imports Ilk. Tls. 101,- <).)S,r)Ss. 312 25 ^- If. ^- .;«l ;jia e^ :«^-. - •??? ^ ,„. K wiSS^^SS -^ _ji i^^* ? -f^l^P ®ii^lSEjrii^¥!l n^^ r ^* 7; i|itm ^^^Hf ^; Wff-^ P*! Sitm^ -v^T^^jMdi^HH 25. Vladivostok. 2b. Railway station Vladivostok (])op. 100,()()()) is situated on the Bay of (ioldcn Horn. Itwas tbiindcd in 18G0 and is an important naval and commercial port. It hasan excellent harbour i)rotected by the island of Kazakevitch, which, however,is ice-boiind for more than three months, during which a naiTow water-wayis kept o])en by an ice-breaker. The principal sti-eet is Svietlanskaia facing on the Golden Horn ; it con-tains the greater ])art of the most imposing buildings of the eit\-. InGospitalnaia stands the pjramidal moninnent to Admiral Xevelskj-, raised in1897, inscrilxid with the words of Nicholas I: The Russian flag must notbe hauled down from any position where it has Ijeen unfurled. Durii:g Russias great days the jjort was made the base of her naval andpolitical activities in the Far East, and during the first stage of the recentEuropean war it was the only port through which Russia could get hermilitary stores from abroad, and on that account exhibited great ]iros]) the general di
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