Important Decision by Russian Government: Provisions for Free Transit of Goods: A New Transport Rivalry with Dairen Of the two natural exits for the Products of north Manchuria, Vladivostok and Dairen, the forme: port has greater advantages, being situated nearer to Harbin, the centre of the territory and connected with it by a railroad of one gauge, whereas pa freight moving southwards to Dairen have to change and be transhipped at Changchun, where the Chinese Eastern connects with the South Manchuria Railway.
The revolution in Russia, and the period of civil war, almost closed the Port of Vindivostok to foreign commerce and only from 1921 have exports of, Manchurian staple products again begun to move through Vladivostok in appreciable quantities, although growing from year to yea 'The import trade, however, has remained sluggish' and has eomparatively been quite insignificant, R. and Ussuri Railway There being no regular through traffic facilities connecting Viadivostok with its Siberian hinterland and European Russia, there could be no "question of any revival of the former importance of the great. Siberian Overland route for passengers and goods between Europe and the Far East of Asia. Within the past two months, however, great changes have taken place in this respect. Upon ithe putting into effect of the agreement between the U.S. 8. R. and China regarding the Chinese Eastern Railway on October 3 last when the Railway was formally placed under joint Russo-Chinese administration, better understanding began to prevail between the Chinese Eastern Railway and the Ussuri Railway. Besides, the Soviet Government took Jo number of steps to facilitate the Vladivostok route for both exports jand imports, and to restore the transit traffic of passengers and Recently the Council of People's Commissaries of the U. S. S. R. at /Moscow on November 11 last passed decision, declaring Vladivostok a free port.
This declaration is of enormous importance not only for the Russian Far East, but also for north Manchuria, the latter country receiving its own natural outlet to the Pacific Ocean in the port of Vladivostok. All import and export goods -can move in transit through this, port without any restriction whatsoever. The list of prohibited commodities is
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