This wonderful city has suffered considerably by the recent floods. Never has so much rain fallen in so short a space of time since the Japanese war. All the houses are leaking, {com the residence of the inscrutable chief engineer, Mr. Sakharoff, down to the humblest peasant shanty. The Hotel Dalny, with its galvanised iron roof, withstood che storm better than the handsomer tiled-roof buildings about it. The quarters building for the new electric power plant. have been a veritable lake, and the tennis court of the park below the Club miniature sea, But the rapidity with which the place became dry after such unprecedented rainfall proves the site of the city most admirably chosen, The smaller of the two enormous dry docks is nearing completion and will be open to the public by winter. Tsingtao is a revel tw people unacquainted with the possibility of creating a city.in a few years, but Dalny surpasses Tsingtao many tines over. The regulations of the place, too, will be ssu tolerable to prospective residents that ina choice of settling—between Tsin Dalny—few would choose the torn paratively few people on the China coast are aware that in two years Russia has built on the bay opposite Talienwan a city' that is sure to become the Sau Francisco of the eastern coast of Asia. I have been assured vy the Russian authorities that Dalny will be made so by the closure of trade at both Newelnwany and Viadivostock. This they will clu by making Dalny an absolute-free port, while Newchwang. will. be subjected to'such heavy duties as to be prohibitive of trade entering that port.
russian officers, with whom 1 conversed, ridiculed the idea of the retrocession of Manchuria, as well as Viceroys Liu and Chang's memorial to the Empress to secure at the earliest moment a treaty covering the withdrawal of Russian troops. Russia is in Manchuria to stay, to govern, and to transmit to future generations ay Russian soil. 'The Manchurians acquiesce with indifference, as they are well treated and handsomely' paid by their conquerors. The province is quiet, with the exception of some roving bandits—ex-soldiers who ato roatning about in the North, but who will soon be run down and scattered or exterminated. A mandarin from Moukden, with whom I conversed, assured me that the people would be better off under Russia than before the occupation. Sites in Dalny have been reserved for English and German churches, and free religion and free trade will insure the popular of Russia's all-winter-open port.
As a harbour it is unsurpassed on the China coast. Deep water, well protected on three sides, the bay is comparatively This personally witnessed. Why the place quiet when a typhoon is raging outside.
was left until the present to be exploited hard to divine. Ignorance of its possibilities seems the cause, and Russia can now rejoice in that oversight that left this wonderful spot, until in due course of ime she was able to take advantage of it.
ocean pier is in course of construction, beside whichztwelve of the largest oceaugoing steamers em discharge at one time, direct into the railway cars that will convey the cargo to all parts of Manchuria, Mongolia, Siberia, or even Europe. Thirty million roubles have been appropriated by the Minister of Finance for Dalny, and M. de Witte is shortly expected to personally inspect this creation of his genius. Excellent accommodation can be obtained at the Hotel Daloy, and daily steamers from Chefoo, via Port Arthur, render a journey there an easy matter. the port will be declared open this winter and it behoves merchants and traders generally to visit the place and secure a building site as soon as the announcement vf the opening
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