Places of Interest in Muk den: and Japan aso The ere are three railway stations at Mukden.
The. Peking-Mukden touches all three stations, describing a complete triangle. Th first station, to be reached is Huangkvtun, otherwise known as the old station, which is really what its name implies, for it presents the appearance of an old-style building' worn with age, The Japanese-owned South Manchurian Railway station is the Chinese stores still cling to the swinging doors. A number of. Russian and German stores may be seen here and there, but these are the minority in the Japanese Settlement.
The International Settlement is not really known as the International Settlement, for it does not have the same status as Shanghai, used as a joint station for the Peking-Mukden and South Manchurian railways, although separate tracks and a rather small section of the station are allotted to the Chinese line. The new station of Peking-Mukden Railway which will contain more than one hundred Tooms equipped with modern conveniences is fast nearing completion.
Before reaching the new station the Peking-Mukden train must pass under the South Manchuria Railway bridge which hes become famous as place where the late Chang "Tso-lin met his tragic death. Tt must be recalled that when Chang Tso-lin's train passed under this viaduct, the span of the South Manchurian Railway bridge above exploded in a my serious manner and fell down upo) the moving train below; complete wrecking the care and killing and injuring a number of leading lights of Manchuria, The stone piers and tthe bridge have been put into good shape again, while the small Japanese forts on either side of the bridge which were roughly made of wooden timbers and sandbags a few days before the occurrence of this Aneident are nov replaced by stone and concrete structures.
The city of Mukden presents an interesting study, for not only is the A corner of the Northern Mausoleum. spirit of modernism trying to express itself in spite of the con-Servative atmosphere which is more deeply rooted in Manchuria than in many parts of China, but also it is a living example of the Japanese enterprise in Manchuria, The so-called railway zone or Japanese concession is entirely under the control of the South Manchyrian Railway; 60 much so that hotels, shrines, factories and newspapers are operated by the railway. The new Yamato Hotel is probably the most costly of its kind in Manchuria, and it is quite apparent that" the Japanese are looking ahead. One cannot help wondering why over 8,000,000 Yen was sunk on a hotel which is more or less empty during the greater part of the time.
The Japanese Settlement is a typical example of Japanese town but in it are the British, American, French, Italien, Russian and Japan:
80 well developed as the Japanese railway zone and it can be said that asphalt roads are only a recent innovation. But still, this foreign settlement is iniportant from a business standpoint because a number of leading German, British. and American firms have their offices there. Many fine houses of German, French, or American architecture Jare springing up everywhere in this section of Mukden, and a rather interesting fact which may be n is that the occupants are mostly Chinese who have acquired a taste for foreign-style houses.
'A tramear the South Manchurian Railway station A section of the Chi nese city in Mukden planning in Manchuria, for in the very centre of the city is a monument placed within a small circular plot of ground which is neither a park nor a square. The streets jut out from this circular section like the spokes of a wheel. It is true that the Japanese town planning experts have supplied this section of Mukden with plenty of lamp posts, but it seems that instead of providing clear illumination. the result produced is a dim glare, which is made move dazzling by the unusual number of lamps along the streets. The streets in the Japanese Section present a strange com bination of Japan and China, for the Japanese stores are noticeable by their sliding Japanece doors, while embraces the new station ex route and stops in front of the massive stone wall of the old Chinese city.
The wall is about 49 or 50 feet high and is approximately ten miles in Nength, forming sri impregnable protection for the former Manchu capital when bows and arrows were the principal weapons of destruction. The wall is now an impediment the industrial progress of the area within, for the constant stream of moter cars, rieshas, pedestrians, mules, trucks and vehicles must pass through eight narrow gates which fare not wide enough to admit more than one motor car at a time.
Inside the four wells the streets {do not present the appearance of any city in the south bat bear a typical
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