Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — Correcting False Impressions. [ARTICLE]

Correcting False Impressions.

Three false impressions as to the Russian problem in Manchooria are dispelled by Professor G. Frederick Wright of Oberlln college In an article in the Review of Reviews for July. Professor Wright was In Peking at the time of the outbreak last May, and on his escape from the city was forwarded by tho Russian Admiral Alexleff on the railroad through Manchooria. At that time the Russian officials had no apprehension of danger in Manchooria. They were assured by the Chinese government that there would be no uprising lir the districts or provinces traveled by the railroad. Professor Wright went In a construction train as far as the railroad was completed, or to a point thirty miles beyond Mukden. Frbm there h 3 went 200 miles along the unfinished line of the railfoau-. Is Chinese cartel The

total Russian force along this whole line was one Cossack regiment, associated with a Chinese regiment on guard duty. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese were willing workers under Russian superintendents. There were nowhere signs of trouble, and there was absolutely no preparation for it by the Russians. All along the route the Russian engineers had their families with them, and were confiding complicity in the Chinese workmen and soldiers. At Leo-sha-ku the railway property wae guarded by Chinese soldiers. At

Harpln, on the Sungari river, Russian headquarters in Manchooria, there were no apprehensions of trouble, and Professor Wright and party started down the river June 27 for Kabarovsk, 700 miles distant, on the Amoor. Half way down the steamer was ordered back by telegraph, as the revolution had come without a moment’s warning. From this It is very evident that those who at first claimed that Russia connived to start the war in Manchooria were either mistaken or lied deliberately.