2 correspondent now at Moukden who, aankly confessed, has nothing
has see a phu of the proposed Ru all about him, writes that he railway from western Siberia, east of thie Lakex. rid Kinchta and Urga to Peking He ans have made the and are working on it from the Trans-Siberian railway, and they intend to complete this railway first as the most important, while dentinning their work on the Manchurian line. He says he was asked by an official the other day what England intended to do, as the Chinese understood that our Government would prevent Rus ing Peking. The ehuriun railway is going on very slow]; is carelessly built; the telegraph is up, but so far very little earthwork beyond Liaoyang. The Russians are getting on with the bridges, wooden ones, and are preparing the timber and piles for the across the river to Moukden, but up to the present no work has been donia. out Our correspondent re iterates the complaints about the squeezing in the payment for land taken for the railway; probably it is the shroffs and interpreters employed by the Russian who are guilty of this. Our correspondent adds that the Russian soldiers sto the Chinese inns and go into the shops and take what they like at their own prices, sometimes without paying at all, so ti mmkeepers now will not take in any:
suers if they ca help it. The Rus-the mines in Liaoyang hour any official orders from the Chinese ernment, and they are also trying to get other mines in the district. The men who fall ill in Russian employ, or wHo are shot or wounded, are sent to the British missionary doctors, who do a great deal of for the Russians. The people are ly to see the country opened and readily to foreign things. Six new foreign shops have been opened in Moukdien "by Chinese from Shanghai; they are called "Shanghai Stores," ete., and everything can be bought in them, wines, stores, drugs, silks, clocks, ete. Ric: shas are also for sale, but there are none as yet plying on the streets. These shops are full of people and are doing well, and more are being altered into the foreign style. A German firm got an order from the Viceroy the other day for 10,000 guns and 10,000,000 cartridges. The crops look well and the hemp is already being harvested. Our correspondent finishes with a note on the omnipresence of the Russian soldier in Manchuria. His letter is dated the 22nd of August.
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