This form is invariably adhered to in the Siberian telegraph service.
The telegraph on the lower Amoor was built under the supervision of Colonel Romanoff and was not completed at the time of my visit.

It commenced at Nicolayevsk and followed the south bank of the Amoor to Habarofka at the mouth of the Ousuree.

At Mariensk there was a branch to De Castries, and from Habarofka the line extended along the Ousuree and over the mountains to Posyet and Vladivostok.

From Habarofka it was to follow the north bank of the Amoor to the Shilka, to join the line from Irkutsk and St.Petersburg.Arrangements have been made recently to lay a cable from Posyet to Hakodadi in Japan, and thence to Shanghae and other parts of China.

When the cable proposed by Major Collins is laid across the Pacific Ocean, and the break in the Amoor line is closed up, the telegraph circuit around the globe will be complete.
The telegraph is operated on the Morse system with instruments of Prussian manufacture.