Show MUKDEN IS AGAIN THRIVING I 1 belief that russians can repel the Japs Causes business to pick up mukden nov 20 A month bac i the natives of mukden were on the verge of panic the russians retreating from liao yang and so he factory went were not going to stop short of or harbin every one who had the means either left the city or prepared to do so what provisions there were rose to famine prices private vehicles disappeared from the streets and the chinese two cheeld tarts cne as dr vanished shutters were up on many of the stores and the whole place looked alto a city about to bo abandoned to the enemy today mukden Is as thriving as it ever was it not more so the russians are fortified thirteen miles to the south on a line that every one believes the japanese can neither break nor turn city has opened up again like a jericho roae into a bowl of water and life is going on as smoothly as if there were not two big armies at quarters close enough for us to hear every big gun that is fired the shops are open and doing a trade not only in the necessaries of life but luxuries as well furs are in the greatest degand deu and tn the big shops one can find skins of seal and aigars otter and bear and the thousand and one other varieties that the chinese work into overcoats shir has clovea and capes silks stiff with embroidery in gold and silver and ready purchasers and boltl ai rare bits of biondo china ware and jewel work eliat disappeared so mysteriously when the city was thought to be are again displayed for sale native cabs are again seen on the street and soldiers eis on duty at the street crossings direct the busy traffic ake the police on the noisy proa st petersburg altogether tho fear ol 01 war and hostile occupancy has apparently vanished from mukden and the town Is living Us old eaby oriental life with just ft bodven of modern energy introduced by a population of about a quarter of a million foreigners scattered round about etue ark SO former governor kasle died today atter an illness of freeks i |