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THE OHEGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21. t mmm. GREAT SLAV RUIN BOUND TO ARISE Seaport of East Siberia Is Focal Point of American-Asiatic De velopmefit to Come. RANDOM GLIMPSES OF VLADIVOSTOK Br Frederiex MConslrk (Coprricht. 1921. br Frtdertck McCannick.) Vladivostok Is the palm of the Tight band of European civilization out stretched to America. It is thrust in ths teeth of . Asia, between Japan on the east and China, on the west, ready to g-o broken Into the maw of Asiatic - life ; and It is a mystery what can save it . Vladivostok-was lntendd ma Tttuuiia' San Francisco. They were among the carbon points Of our civilization light ing' the way across the Pacific. Boiled on the tongue they matched In length and meter. Together they were nick named Frisco" and Vlad." One did not excel the other for beauty of sur roundings. Vlad rests near the end of a peninsula into which opens an arm of .the ocean which Russia named the Golden Horn. Reaching back on either side to form , ths peninsula are Ussuri and Amur bays. In front spreads Peter the Great gulf, with America bay to the left and Possiet bay to the right. Behind rise protecting heights. Signal Hill, overlooks this panorama; it can be called the center in the continental shore - of the Sea of Japan. Nansen, who sailed across the Polar sea to East Siberia, and who traveled there and three years ago tried to feed starving Russians from the Baltic stood here kon the eve of the World war and said : "Perhaps in no distant future this may become the focus of great and import ant events." What happened must have Astonished the prophet. A. COLORFUL PLAIT When the New Englander wants to go. to the center of things "to see the animals" he journeys to Boston. In East Siberia the native goes to Vladivo stok, the only metropolis he can -visit without making a 6000 or 6000-mile trip to Moscow., or Petrograd,. or crossing the Pacific In extent it is "compared with the District of .Columbia. It is a city of strangers and of aliens. At the time of the foreign military occupation two years ago there were more foreign .soldiers than Russians. There always ars more Asiatics than civilians. .' The some of the guns were - visible. ' The foreign hands German, Japanese, Amer ican and, of course. British and French. Standing on Signal .Hill the whole scene unfolds beneath. Toward the sea along both arms of the peninsula are the long lines Of forts where for years some or 'tne guns were visible. k The mouth of the Golden Horn is guarded by fortified headlands and a fortified is land. The minimum depth of the har bor is 35 feet and ships from the world's merchant fleets scatter themselves v .ir s? 1 t I I rr "i i '"W " V .-,tiijLi;a " " 'J i i s. nsflfassl -sfcssss Jh. u i mm a-i- - 1 ' f - ' '' ; j : I ' 7 s j ' - -t , iii aril r rui'li ti ri - J1"!' uSir-i t$- "WW l1 X"""jsi, .-AKa.v-i everywhere about it. Under the hills in the upper end, at the left. Is the port's naval quadron. IJTTHE MrSEUM There are two parks running along the waterfront. One near Me naval port contains a monument to Kevelskot, the Russian discoverer of the Straits of Tartary and the 'navigable entrance to ths Amor river. Near the naval port is also a small museum. Among .other things it contains one of the boundary stones of the empire of Genghis Khan, brought down from where it. was erected by the' Mongols at the watershed north of the Amur. I went to the museum and was told it was closed for repairs and no one could be allowed to go in. Tips open many doors in Russian lands and it opens this one which has been "closed for . repairs" every time : I have been here. , . . ; - - ;;' -.rx;: 1 Vladivostok- is the heir in turn of Okhotsk and : Petropavlovsk, and of Nivolaivsk from which it received the admiralty in 1S6S. It is the heir Of Port Arthur and Dalny. It is Russia's Pacific naval station.; The year before the World war, improvements of the port were ordered Involving three and one half millions of dollars, to be carried out beginning with an expenditure of $850, 000 the latter half of 1913. The docks were to be equipped with electric crane? and other cargo-handling apparatus coil ing two-thirds Of this amount. When the war started - Vladivostok had two dry- docks of 620 feet length each and was Scenes In Vladivostok. . Left, monument commemorating visit of Nicholas LL, - Rig tit, above, vratcrlroBt at Vladivostok. Below, troop parading tbe main street. ; ' long, three jetties and a wharf, with timber, coal and- fish depots to take care of these most Important products of the East Siberian coast. There was a floating dock 400 feet long and three floating cranes of SO, 75, and 100 tons, and a floating dock in three sections, each 70 feet long, with a total lifting power of about 2500 tons provided for. APPEARANCE DECEPTIVE ' Four schools - were' maintained - in Vladivostok two one-grade schools foNl boys and two one-grade schools for girls. V?adivostoklans speak of the "red" school and of the "green" school. They are two high schools which are kept going by the application of assessments on the families of the pupils. There is a Mennonite ' or Lutheran church and Vladivostok is the headquarters of a Russian Orthodox church mission whose missionaries work in about a dosen dis tricts of the surrounding province among Korean Russians and natives. - , There is an Oriental institute ' here. For nearly 20 years I hav been meet Ing its graduates in East Asia, young preparing to construct a quay 2121 feet Russians who have learned -Far Eastern Can You Name cIhese Wower Sites ? Three superb hydro-electric power streams join the Columbia River near Portland ' Northwestern Eleetric Corppany owns these power sites, and does a profitable; business in the manufacture and development of hydro-electric and steam power in the Portland Power area. "Hydro-Electro Dividends and How to Get Them" is a" booklet telling just where these power sites are, how much power they can produce, and why Northwestern Electric lias made money from the start and has just paid its twenty-fifth consecu tive dividend to security holders. It also explains a Special Savings Plan, by which any self-supporting man or woman can become a part owner in Northwestern Electric Company business, properties and profits through invest ment in its Cumulative First Preferred Stock pay ing 7.37 per cent on the investment and sold on interest-bearing partial payments. . This issue is limited to 10,000 shares. Telephone, call or 'write today for free and How to Get TkcmS Address - Northwestern Electric Company J. G.TavaS, Stock Sales Manager 10th and Washington Streets Telephones: Broadway 580 ' ? Portland, Oregon .-.v ' , Automatic 567-47 languages and given invaluable aid to the diplomatic and consular service, to the Russian army, and to the depart ments of the old Russian government which built the railroads and made scientific investigations in East 'Siberia. There is a commercial school which also has managed to keep Its doors open. Vladivostok has a cathedral.' an observa tory, sawmills, flour mills, factories, ma chine shops and railways, and to furnish it with its Own communications it has -a wireless plant and the volunteer fleet of cargo and -passenger vessels which for merly connected it with the Baltie and Black seas. But all of these things art assets - which , at present represent the wreck of a city by the northern sea, rath er than its life and support. ' Russian enterprise on the Pacific is a direlict and Vladivostok is a prodigal feeding on husks. ' Vladivostok is the meeting place of America and Asia and focus . 'of - the American-Asiatlo issue. It is the po litical and diplomatic center of the Pa cific area. Seoul, Peking, Nanking. Shanghai and Canton have had several revolutions but Vladivostok has had half a dosen and it is still in eruption. It is the place to which Russian power work ing from the North Pacific region toward Port Arthur slgsagged to its fall.. It is a magnificent ruin of Slav power.,' And it has behind it all and more than that which has made other cities of the American coast opposite. San Francisco had the. California gold mines back of it. Vladivostok 3tas3three Klondikes in its fclnterland. .Vancouver has the Canadian West Wheat fields behind it. Vladivostok has the great agricultural regions of the whole Amju basin. Canada's trans-Pa cific steamship Empress of Russia was named, in connection with the' approach ing greatness of Vladivostok and in an ticipatiOn of round-the-world connections on a world scale between Russia and the Pacific coast That . development has been delayed, but the fact that the fiercest light of International affairs and ok" the conflict between two civilisation in tbe Pacific beats upon Vladivostok is proof Of Its world importance. - Out oi this situation has been born a new world capital. Many old capitals have been given again, second-hand to the 'world. tut a new International center has arisen on the Sea of Japan. It is Vladivostok. the lodestone to IS of the world's na lions and almost as many races. Mail This Coupon for Full Information J. CLTAVAfcES, Slock Sola Afswer, tfortbr&ern EteShic Cmmftatf - f T lOzi and WidUm Streets Portland, Oregon ' - . ; A Namt. Address. T MORIS NOW RULER OF TURKESTAN (Centtawd Fntt rise One) cottage. A number of. other officials were also living there. They all shared the dining room together. Peters and his wife having but on little bedroom to themselves. .. . .When I got then several of them bad already begun the meal, so we sat down at once.. Peters bad aged shockingly. I couldn't help but remark about his ap pearance and he explained that be had ha!d typhus six months before and had never fully recovered. He cannot be over 10 and he looks 45. - - - . wife'was teacher Speaking of his health, he remarked : "Of course. I ought not to stay here ; the climate is not good and there Is too much work, but I am of that temperament that I do not like to begin anything that I am not able to finish. It will take another yar at least to get Turkestan in running order. - - He introduced me to Mrs. Peters. She is his second wife. The Eugltah wife dl vorced him about the time of the terror. The new Mrs. Peters was a bright, healthy looking )erson. with reddish hair and a quick smile. She had been a teacher Jn the old days. . He told me briefly what he had been doing since the terror. When things had settled down and the government had adopted a more conciliatory attitude it sent away most of the men who bad made enemies because of their severity! Peters went to Siberia and then to the Caucasus. GRAFT EXPOSED ' In fact, Lenin, who knew him since he was a boy and depended on him. sent him wherever- work was difficult and where a Crnt hand was necessary Peters said. . He was working tnat day on the data for a third great public trial. .The first one had proved to be of great educa tional value. The trials of Tashkent are public and the whole population, so far as possible, attend. And those who do not attend at least' discuss the affairs. Tbe first case was concerning sabotage on the railways and the second was one about the bad management of a hos pital. He explained : It wasn't so much the fact that, we exposed the graft and the mismanage ment ; that was important, yes : but more so was the fact that the wool com munity discussed it and learned some thing about hygiene government and hu inanity." CARRIES PISTOL Listening to Peters talk of these things and his enthusiasm for Lenin's plans of reconstruction, it seemed difficult to be lieve that he had ever been head of an organised terror. Only once on my visit to Tsshkent did I hear Peters say anything that suggest ed the days of the terror. He took up a pistol from the desk and. as he stuck it into his belt, he said to me : "Did you ever use one of these I replied, I know how to shoot: but. of course, I never had to do It. And he said: , - . " -Well. I wish to God X never had P BOY AND GIL GO TRIP TO SEE ? SIGHTS OF CITf! Children of IV and 13-Set Op ; Housekeeping in San Fran ' -cisco; Romance Is Shattered. the children had a "grand" time, aeeord-. Ing to pretty Helen, who said they had been to twe or three moving picture shows daily and otherwise enjoyed their Urn. . Lawrence was serious about bis trip here and had tried to secure a "corner and sell newspapers. but was told he was -too little.- ... " Following their apprehension the pa rents, of the children were notified and arrived; In a short tim to take them home. VTheu Helen's father arrive at the (Detention Horn with tears tt gladness In her eyes she ran and threw her arms "ready to go basse 4o mother." Germany Trading With South America -' l iif Cahsd - ; Buenos Aires. Aug. 8s. Ths rapM In crease tn commerce between ths Argen tine and Germany is Indicated by the tact that during the current month IS vessels have cleared this port for Ger many. wUs cargoes of wool, hides, corals and meats.. It is learned that a major ity f the new ships leaving Germany are destined for Buenos Aires to pick p cargoes of food prod acta. - - By W. O Carre San Francisco. Cat. Asg. 10. t N. S.) Another youthful romance has been shattered. - - Pretty 11-year-old Helen tevia to back In the olive orchard of her father's ranch at OrovlUe. and 11-year-old Lawrence Mahoney of the same town is telling his playmates about the "sights' he saw during his and Helen's brief ' five-day stay in "the city." which disappear ance pussled authorities throughout ths state. Helen and Lawrence have been friends for several years went to school to gether, played together and manifested a high regard for each other. The lure to see the "wild things" (as they called them) of Ban Francisco caused them to carefully plan a visit to the city, un beknown to their parents. . They pooled their financial resources, totaling abotkt 20. and arrived fcere before they were missed from home. Reaching San Francisco, Helen reraem bered some frieneds who lived at an elusive address. but.sbS found they had either moved or she had the wrong street number, for 'they could not be located. Their only alternative was to take an apartment. STATEWIDE SEARCH ' , The absence of the children from their Oroville noma was reported to-the po lice of that city, and later the search spread over the stats, and every police department had been notified Jf their disappearance. ' After five days of searching polios officers hers found them wandering about the Ferry build ing watching the boats corns In. The youngsters were taken ' to the Juvenile Detention -Home and when questioned by ths matron said they bad left home "because we love each other." The matron also found by Interrogation they had but M cents when found by the officer. -It is not so much a ease of love as It is 'of Helen being a "big sister,' said the matron at - the Detention Home. "Helen has always treated Lawrence as her little brother, and. besides, Helen Is a good cook." BAB GRA3TD TWE "During their stay in Ban Francises , f I II IT fl I IM I I First Complete Showing , New Fall Styles KUPPENHEIMER AND LION SERVICE SUITS Good Clothes for Men and Young Men SUITS, O'COATS and RAINCOATS the kind that appeals to men who appreciate Individuality la clothes, combined with modest prices. - Also Ready Fall Showing Ralston Shoes Stetson and MaUory Hats Portland's xclaivo K"ppeheimer Hons Morrison! at Fourth Street Signed every death warrant in those his torical days which followed . the aasas--Slnatien of Miebach and the attempted assassination of Lenin. There are various estimates about the number of executions which he ordered, but the soviet statistics gave 8000. That in Itself is enough to send the shivers over one.. Anyway, I could not locate him. - He had dropped out of life at the Russian capital. FI5DS PETERS On my .way south during a Journey through the provinces I learned that he was in Tashkent, the capital of Turke stan. Arrived . there, and established in a cold, miserable room at the only hotel. I inquired of the commandant about Peters. I found that Peters is virtually governor of Turkestae), with sweeping powers as a revolutionary official. I asked the commandant to call him on the telephone. He did not even try to disguise his ' astonishment. In 'another moment I was speaking to Peters. He said. "Well, well! How did you get to this part of the world 7 And am 'you come all alone? And what has become ef ""Williams and Miss Beatty and Kan- some T . ; He named all the old crowd of Amer ican reportrs and added: "I'll send a car right over ; yon come gnd take dinner with me. and my wife." LEADER LOOKS OLDER - When the car arrived there were two young men from the extraordinary com mission wearing the sinister looking uniform of that institution. , Everybody in ths hotel came out to watch me being taken away, throwing me sympathetic glances, so X could tell they thought I was being arrested. 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