This well-written and admirably illustrated book is designed to show
the Western, and especially the American, public what Japanese enterprise has accomplished since 1905 in Manchuria. The trade returns and the photographs of stately buildings in Dairen, Port Arthur, Fushun, Mukden and other great towns are in themselves sufficient proof of the energy with which the Japanese are developing the agricultural and mineral wealth of the province. In 1920 Manchuria's foreign trade was valued at over £85,000,000. The export of soya beans alone accounted for a quarter of that large total, though it is only fourteen years since the first cargo of soya beans—the "modem manna "—left Dairen .for England. A fifth of the cultivated land in Southern Manchuria is devoted to soya beans, and there are nearly two hundred mills for pressing or crushing the beans, so that a vast new industry has come into existence. The author is careful to point out that the railway company, unlike the Chinese railways, has adopted American methods and uses American material and rolling-stock.
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