With the Russians in Manchuria Author:Maurice Baring General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Methuen Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 Manchuria (China) History / General History / Asia / General History / Asia / China History / Asia / Japan History / Military / Other Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the or... more »iginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV LIAOYANG TO TA-SHI-CHIAO T ARRIVED at Liaoyang on the 22nd of June. ' Liaoyang is only fifty miles from Mukden, and the journey took nearly twelve hours. Liaoyang, as a town, resembles Mukden only it is less imposing, and perhaps even more picturesque and more dirty; the environs are certainly more beautiful. Like Mukden it is surrounded by a big wall; only at Mukden the town has overflowed and formed large suburbs; at Liaoyang there is only a small suburb on the east side of the town. As at Mukden, there was a collection of small brick-built government offices clustered round the railway station. There was far more animation at Liaoyang than at Mukden; General Kouropatkin was at Ta-shi-chiao when I arrived; but nevertheless one felt that one was somewhere near a war. Streams of carts poured through the town, the green two-wheeled carts called dvoogolkas which the Russians use for their transport; troops frequently marched through the streets and officers arrived at the hotel on their way to or from the front. The hotel was kept by a Greek ; it was not very comfortable, and the flies gave one but little peace ; still there was an atmosphere of gaiety about Liao- yang, a constant stream of arrivals, a bustle and life which did not exist in Mukden. I spent a week at the hospital, being laid up at Dr Westwater's house, a part of which he has very kindly turned into an hospital. Dr Westw...« less