Show RUSSIAN PLANS IN MANCHURIA V dv Wi Will Ee Be de Por Port of f fEnt Ent Entry and Loss of Dalny M t to Some Extent WILL AID AMERICAN TRADE TRADER R REPORT PORT FROM GOVER MENT MENTI I 9 AGENT IN CHINA W Washington Match latch re renew new ew d to establish a pernia erta nent foothold in n 1 by Vladivostok the port of entry thereby offsetting the loss of Dalny and Port Arthur Is described In an official report made P b c at tle slate department today which report recent recently ly reache Washington from one of the thO d departments agents In J China The report expressed the belief that this wi will redound t tp the development of American trade and Wi will resul result In a great curtailment of the ImpOrtance of Shanghai as a point The extract says m made de public at te the department Since the conclusion ot of peace be between tween Russia Russia and Japan there has be been n much speculation in the foreign community of Shanghai as to the future opportunity for trade develop development development ment In Manchuria and therefore the negotiations between Japan and China on the one hand and the diplomatIc moves ot of Russia at Pekin have been watched with the closest attention Ru Rush h Began at Once AsS As soon as the way to Vladivostok wa was open there ensued a rush of steam steamers ers from Shanghai Che foo fo Nagasaki Kobe and Yokohama and a as a consequence consequence the Immediate demand for merchandise was soon satisfied Then came the I riots both at Vladivostok and Harbin i followed by te the Ice cosing the lort port of entry The discouraging factors drove man many of the traders away and lef left n a market which while wen well supplied with i such luxuries as are suitable for the Russians is sti still demanding staples for forthe forthe the and and is offering a gat great chance for development Such is practically the situation to today today day and a perIo period of three months from this date wi will see norther Manchuria eger cager for that which Is now believed to tobe tobe of which be the beginning a new era wi will last 8 a few years ears at the least Japans Intentions Unknown No one knows what Japan Japan Intends to do in southern Manchuria in inthe inthe the way of trade or In development in connection wih with her porton portion of the Chinese Eastern railway and the new newline lne line that is to be buit built there t to connect wih ith Kore Korea Russia for the benefit of her porton portion of the Chinese Eastern rai rail railway way for her ow own political affairs in the east and perhaps for lor the sake of aford afford affordIng Ing a contrast Is letting everybody know what her aim and ambition Is IsI IsIt I It may be wel well to t point out what is the feld field for the development noW now being advertised by Russian agent agents The he Chinee Chinese Eastern railway which leaves the old and original suney survey of the railway at Nert chinsk crossed the Manchurian border at the st tn since caled called Manchuria Manchuria I and then b by a southeastern course runs through on one of the most ferte fertile areas I Ion on the continent nt to Harbin and from thence to border thus reaching Siberia agin again and joining the railway a part of the original i route oute and and now running to on the Amur river goes to Vladivostok Through this Man section there are vast stretches of rolling ansi and level Jevel lands geat great forests i of fl wood of a merchantable kind and rIch area areas Wi Will Be Port of Entry Even while Vladivostok and and Harbin W were re burning plans were hastening for forthe forthe the coming campaign of development development The scheme advertised contemplated the establishment of a a steamship serviCe servie I iCe ie which would make Vladivostok the home port ort the welcoming and the pro protection I of invested capital the invitation ton tion to use tile the railway as the means of transportation to Europe for the products of China and especially of tea lea leaTh Th ThOse se in a general way are said to be bethe bethe the plans and the foreign agent has been iven a free hand to put them into effect as far as the outside world orld Is concern d Itts IR thus s evident th that t the g I and t th the R of this pr pr ring to do a gr great at d deal al toward making Vla VIed the port of entry and thereby making up for forthe the loss of D and Port Arthur 1 for Japs The docks are rc to b ho enlarged the they say godowns buit built and cargo landing facilitated This Titis means competition wih with Japanese and an interesting con Condition dion wi will resUlt result The Japanese mer merchant merchant chant marne marine have apparently recognize recognized nize this and while Japan Jauan affairs are being adjusted the former war zone their steamers are gettIng ready to en enter enter ter the Vladivostok trade also I If therefore the ports of southern Man Manchuria churia should be forsaken and there should be a reversion to Vladivostok I It would seem that there should be be a much beter better future for a practIcally discarded port I It is also gued by those who are interested in stok that i It Is naturally the port for American ManchurIan Manch commerce b being closer ser and easier casler ot of access in every c w way y Shanghai Will Lose Heretofore Shanghai has benefited largely by the carrying trade but if there is the outcome in indicated in the foregoing Chinas great greatest 1 est port wi will suffer American cargoes i iwi wi will be landed at Yokohama Kobe I or Nagasaki or i it wi will go dIrect I And there wi will be a geat great curtailment of the cargo at Shanghai which Is land landed landed ed here for transshipment That from Europe via Ia the Suez canal can also wl les less expense go to the north direct rather than announced that the I It is already Chinese Ester Eastern railway will institute a system by Which aU all charges at fixed rates rate cat call be paid il in America for ship shipment ment month to any poInt In Manchuria reached by the lne line I If hal half of the optimistic views of those who talk from the Russian stand standpoint standpoint point concerning north northern r ManchUria and the Chinese Eastern railway come tre true the world will speedily see that as a mater matter of fact Russia has nut suf suffered very little b by the outcome of the war as it relates to her development project projects In the far east In any event In the immediate future norther northern Man Manchuria churs churia seems according to the for tor AmerIcan indicated enterprises as ii good fed |