The military authorities have again decided that the sale of all Kinde of intoxicants shall be pro: hibited in the Chinese Eastern Railway area. The official reason given for this step is that further detachments are now passing through Harbin and Manchuria for the seat] head of war; but it would appear that rhe real reason the wrath of General Bavitch, the Military Commander of the Priamur, in consequence of a drunken brawl at one of the stations along the Manchurian Railway. In} dier. actuality Harbin's civil population very little inconvenienced, for the local authorities are not showing any signs of energy in carrying the regulation out to the letter, and though trading in spirits is not openly permissible, there is hardly an hotel or restaurant where refreshments @ stimulating form cannot be obtained. A dry Harbin will for ever remain unimaginable, hough, to give the city her due, com prevalent, not because less is comparatively little drunk-
drunk by its citizens but because drinkables are much cheaper and purer than those to be found inside the boundaries of the Russian Empire.
Trans-Siberian Railway.
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