It requires seven different kinds of Jpasses or statements to travel over this railway and now it is said that typhoid inoculation is to be added.
To pass through Manchoukuo special vise is required. An Ameri-Jean family of six arriving at Dairen fat 9 pin, who only had a permit from Mukden, was required to take 'a twelve hour trip on the train to the Jespltal, Changchow, sitting up. all Jnight—all six required to go—to get their special permit. As sleepers cannot be gotten on a moment's notice, they had to sit up two nights.
To an observer from the train wine Jdow, Manchoukuo shows some pro-jewess, and houses appear to be built jof brick or cement. Boats are so lovererowded coming from Dairen that the writer was required to wait nine days to secure even a third-class passage. The Yamato Hotel of Dairen fs excellent. Tt is quiet, clean and ithe cuisine is good. In looking {through the directory furnished in all rooms, it was noted that 490 pages lave were printed in English; twere devoted to Oriental names trid
[but most of these in English are busi-Ines firms, chiefly dealers in fur. The south Manchurian Railway has 0 wonderful looking hospital, apparently large enough for over 500 Beds, and it is fully equipped.
The most striking impression of Dairen is the strong, well-built, brick thouses. Many of these were built by the Russians. And another is the jscarclty of people on the street. [There are 00,000 inhabitants; but where they keep themselves an obser ver cannot say. Mosquitoes are 60 few that the hotel was not screened.
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