Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 314, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1920 — ANCIENT CITY KNOWN TO FEW [ARTICLE]

ANCIENT CITY KNOWN TO FEW

Musan, in Korea, Visited Only by Occasional Stragglers From Western Civilization. , Few white men have been fortunate enough to wander inland, in Koiea, as far as the ancient city of Musan. This city, with its grim old waits bearing five centuries of history, lies on the very edge of Korea. To enter it is like stepping backward®to another world, into a story of the Arabian Nights. During the Russo-Japanese war several Russians took refuge there, and since then half a dozen foreigners have discovered it, but. except for these stragglers, Musan lies puknown to the western world. The great central palace, or reception hall of the city, remains intact, and close by, In partial ruins, Is the temple guesthouse. The smaller public buildings, the gates, the watch towers and even the walls -themselves hitve their own particular tell of Musan’s interesting past, but few people know it. People who have hunted tigers In the vieinity of Musan say the animals are more beautiful than their relatives of Indict or the Malay peninsula. These beauties range among the bitterly cold mountains of China, Korea and Manchuria, and far into Siberia.