Show MARVELOUS development IN THE FAR afaf EAST I 1 f in a 91 recently published book the author of which has hod had opportunities for tho the study of his subject through personal investigation says saya the financier romle some surprising facts are disclosed denoting the progress that has been made in repairing the waste of ofa war in manchuria which was the central battle field during the russo japanese conf conflict lct the most striking fact shown is that this work of repair has been effected by russia though the japan japanese so have been I 1 in possess possession loii of that portion of the territory which was ceded to them by the treaty of portsmouth their reconstructive operations seem to have been chiefly confined to the development of transportation facilities and restoration partially at least to the chinese manchurian population of occupancy of their territory for the purpose of cultivation and trade the picture portrayed by the author la Is marvelous at harbin the strategic key to the situation in the later days of tho the war it Is stated that there Is a monster railroad terminal vast and boatly buildings an industrial center grinding a thousand million pounds of grain i annually where eleven years ago s stretched the unbroken plain no western american city has over ever b had anything approaching the mat magically icalla rapid growth of this center of the vast asiatic wheat field nor have wo we considered the manchuria Is becoming one of tile the worlds general granaries all the supplies of the troops concentrated in this portion of the territory were drawn from manchuria meat came from china and Alon mongolia golla and tho the harbin flour mills ground dally enough for the russian forces tile the active work of this reconstruction process Is done don 0 by the chinese they are pressing preening northward and westward they are conquering the desert of gobi advancing into it ten miles each year japanese too are everywhere and russians are more hopeful than ever before while the sphere of each Is to a certain extent determined for the present each la is reaching out beyond its formal boundaries which no one regards as permanent it la Is stated that siberia already west of lake baikal is another europe it Is simply an exact equivalent of the old american far west wast or the new canadian northwest it contains cont alna now fifteen millions of people the birth rate is extremely high hence through this increase and that resulting from immigration the population Is being rapidly augmented the most enterprising of the russians are crowding into this s now new land not so much over the railroad as by the rivers and in ion years more there will be a population of thirty and in twenty years probably fifty millions in ili this now territory manufactures fac tures and other productive enterprises are rapidly growing the I IL avowed P policy of the russian statesmen seems now to bo be to step aside and allow natural forces to play out the asiatic drama the force by which the russian people aro are advance ng is counted upon to do the work wl ork the part of the government being only to strengthen the natural movement |