﻿THE 
  FAR 
  EASTERN 
  REPUBLIC 
  

  

  567 
  

  

  Drawn 
  by 
  James 
  M. 
  Darley 
  

  

  A 
  SKETCH 
  MAP 
  OF 
  THE 
  FAR 
  EASTERN 
  REPUBLIC 
  

  

  Four-fifths 
  of 
  the 
  1,800,000 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  the 
  republic 
  carved 
  from 
  Siberia 
  are 
  peasants. 
  

   Its 
  area 
  is 
  equal 
  to 
  the 
  combined 
  areas 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  republics 
  of 
  central 
  Europe 
  — 
  Germany, 
  

   Poland, 
  Czechoslovakia, 
  Austria, 
  and 
  Hungary. 
  

  

  around 
  the 
  waist 
  and 
  silk 
  embroidered 
  

   collar, 
  cuffs 
  and 
  skirt 
  hanging 
  outside 
  the 
  

   trousers. 
  

  

  MARKET 
  PEACE 
  RESEMBEES 
  A 
  STREET 
  FAIR 
  

  

  The 
  few 
  streets 
  of 
  little 
  stores 
  which 
  

   once 
  had 
  been 
  the 
  city 
  market-place 
  had 
  

   grown 
  into 
  many 
  blocks 
  of 
  cubical 
  frame 
  

   sheds. 
  It 
  resembled 
  a 
  street 
  fair. 
  One 
  

   wondered 
  how 
  there 
  could 
  be 
  enough 
  

   business 
  in 
  the 
  poverty-stricken 
  land 
  to 
  

   keep 
  it 
  alive. 
  

  

  Like 
  a 
  miniature 
  city, 
  the 
  stands 
  clus- 
  

   tered 
  according 
  to 
  commodities. 
  Some 
  

  

  offered 
  comestibles, 
  among 
  which 
  boxes 
  

   of 
  cigarettes 
  with 
  long 
  paper 
  mouthpieces, 
  

   a 
  fire 
  precaution 
  for 
  the 
  protection 
  of 
  

   Russian 
  whiskers, 
  and 
  dusty 
  black 
  blocks 
  

   of 
  pressed 
  tea 
  predominated. 
  

  

  Another 
  street 
  was 
  for 
  dry-goods, 
  where 
  

   Chinese 
  stands 
  crowded 
  as 
  close 
  together 
  

   as 
  in 
  their 
  narrow 
  home 
  alleys 
  of 
  Canton, 
  

   with 
  cheap 
  calico 
  prints, 
  Turkey 
  reds, 
  

   silks 
  uncertain 
  in 
  quality 
  and 
  origin, 
  

   spools 
  of 
  thread, 
  and 
  needles 
  able 
  to 
  bend 
  

   like 
  a 
  hairpin. 
  

  

  Buriat 
  peasants, 
  fat 
  and 
  greasy, 
  with 
  

   carts 
  of 
  flour 
  and 
  fresh 
  meat 
  ; 
  swarthy 
  

  

  