Dairen, July 27.
Interesting comparisons between the Manchuria of 30 or 40 years a and the Manchoukuo of the present day have been made lately by two three of the old residents and the difference is almost incredible, For instance it.seems impossible " now that three or four decades ago there was no South Manchuria Railway, no Dairen' Kisen Kaisha and no Shosen Kaisha and. that forel going on a visit from Manchuria to Japan travelled on a military train as far as Dairen and from there by a military. transport, It Is hard to believe that, with the vast quantities of goods being exported: from and arriving at Dairen these times that in old Manchuria the chief exports were animal products and hemp. while the main imports were plecegoods and small metal goods, The animal products consisted of bristles, horse and camel hair, hides, furs' and skins and while these are sill being shipped to other countries they form but a fraction of the export of tonday.
Earller Mukden was the great distributing centre for exports bound for Europe and goods were sent down the Liaoho River, either by junks in the warm weather or by sleds over the "iee-bound waterway in the wintertime, These picturesque though slow methods of transportation were ended when railways started to their way through South Manchu 'The decline of Newchwang began with the development of Dairen as a port.. Dairen' had the advantage of starting' from scratch and. all that was put into it was modern, whereas Newchwang was handleapped by being an "old port with facilities which were not by any means of the latest, 'The elimination of Newchwang as an entrepot began before the World War. which sped up the process and the harbour to-day is but a ghost of its former self, Groundnuts, however, are exported from Yingkow, though' 30_ years they were unknown in Manchuria, textiles imto this port as it has been found impossible to compete with Japanese goods of the same kind and of infinitely tess price, What has come into being as an import of some note is material for bri building and rolling stock.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.