and Revolution "By Our Harbin Correspondent The Harbin mail-train arrives at Vladivostok close on midnight and unless one makes previous arrange: ments one will be forced to spend the night ax the station. Most of the principal hotels have been requisitioned by the Japanese Military and as there is lodging crisis in the town it is nearly impossible to find accommodation anywhere. The shipping portion of the port is known as Eggersheld and it is here where are to be found the wharves and the godown and innumerable railway sidings. On these sidings are to be found hundreds of cars, all more or less in a very damaged state. It does not take long to realize the amount of repairs that are re-.quired to the rolling stock that during the past years has been so badly handled, before it will be sufficient for the wants of the railway. There were but very few steamers in port, the majority of the latter being Japanese, but this is not surprising considering the abnormal state of affairs that has been reigning at Vladivostok.
Yet it seems pretty certain that, if the red-tapeism and graft of the former Customs offwials and Government. Chernovniks (civil servants) is done away with, Viadivostok's export trade will grow by leaps and bounds. Already two freight trains daily are being sent from Harbin to the Primorsk loaded exclusively with Manchurian products, such as wheat, beans, bean-cake, ete., but most of this is required for local consumption, Westra ix Coat.
Attention, too, much be paid to the coal production from the coal mines situated quite close to Vladivostok; it is truly @ sorry atate of affairs that Japanese coal is being brought in, when if the local mines were properly exploited, an export of coal of a quality far superior to any Japanese coal is possible. One group of coal-mines is situated at Ouglouvaya only 32 versts from Vladivostok. This coal though not of good quality is being used on the railway; these mines are capable of producing 600 tons daily when working to their full capa' but their output at present is less than 200.
It is, however, the Suchan Coal Mines that special attention should be paid to, for this is anthracite and equal-to Cardiff coal. Suchan is reached by a branch railway starting from Ouglouvaya, the distance separating the two stations being 148 verts. Owing to labour and political strife very little coal is now being produced but the former production of 600 tons daily can easily be increased to
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