Mr. Montagu Beauchamp, who arrived from Manchuri i en one of our representative cidents in conn his recent tly ing visit to that count His experience of the way in which the Russians deal with the Chinese is very instructive, especially when one bears in mind that Russia has ted" Manchuria. The fact that Mr. Beauchamp wore Chinese dress, and that he was in consequence: frequently mistaken fora Chinese. en. abled him to get ay it were behind the seenes, and gave him an advantage over the ordinary traveller, whose nationality is at oner reengnised, ing Chinese clothes. dino i i note-book ial came up and without <a word snatched the book out of hiv hand.
This extraordinary proceeding was too much for the liberty ug American, who jumped up. pocket an Ameri Sailant and secured possession of his property.
The Rus no good to mission: cording to Russian is allowed to change his religion: this, of course, causes the officials to look with on every attempt to prop: religion. Mr. Beauchamp, whilst. preaching outside ramon at Tichling, was made 'o realise and it is not too much to affirm that the Russian officials watch missionaries asa eat watches a morse. On on osea-
Writing in *L'Echo de Chine," M. Jacques Faure has been giving further particulars of the all-land route homo jon from Dalny to Manchuria (the frontier station between Siberia and a distance of 1,901 versts, cost-G0 and occupying in transit 4 days.
"For the present the traveller find second-class carriages on this of the line; from the beginning more comfortable trains, comprising, fi class carriages and travelling more rapid-Ir, will be running. The' second-class carriages are clean and well warmed, sometimes by means of stoves, sometimes by het water: they do not carry spee
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