Wo are at titness not quite able to understand the news about our own province which we receive: through the home and-Shanghai papers,..1t has been: repeatedly stated that -all-Manchuria is now virtually Russian, but that Newchwang must.be retained open and free as now. "Manchuria" in this connection-mean the provinces of Kirin and Tsitsihar as sometimes inaccurately. represented in' maps? 'The Manchus adopted this: name and. gave it to-the country East and South of Moukden. The Manchu 'Kingdom: never went' further north than Kaiyuen -and was bounded: on the north by the old: palisade indicating the frontiers the "Ming: Empire. The: term. Manchuria was not then-spplied to Kirin and the north thereof.: Kirin was occupied: and built as anvargenal: to meet the Russians who had crossed the Amur in the time of Kang Hei. Manchuria is correctly therefore applied to the most southerly of the three: provinces, 2 though it is-usually employed among foreigners here; as embracing all three. It is quite inaccurate: to apply it only to the two northern provinces.
'4th November,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.