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Updated: May 17, 2025
First we have to go back to Mukden, and then a somewhat shorter journey to the last Japanese station. At the next the stationmaster is a Russian, and Russian guards replace the Japanese. In the afternoon the train draws up at Kharbin on the Sungari River, a tributary of the great Amur.
So that Rome, the capital of the Empire, came to find itself far from the richest and most populous regions, among territories poor and despoiled, on the frontiers of barbarism in such a situation as the Russian Empire might find itself to-day if it had a capital at Vladivostok or Kharbin.
Next morning we stay for two hours at a station in Manchuria, on the boundary between Manchuria and Siberia, between China and Russia, and here our luggage is examined by the Russian customs officers. We put our watches back one and a half hours that is the difference of time between Kharbin and Irkutsk. We are now travelling from east to west, in the same direction as the sun.
It was towards Kharbin that the Russians slowly retired after their defeat, and on this very platform Prince Ito, the first Japanese Resident-General of Korea, was murdered barely a year later. At Kharbin we have to wait two hours for the international express, which runs twice a week from Vladivostock to Moscow.
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