Mukden, in Chinese Shing-king, the capital of Manchuria, on a tributary of the Liao, in the S. of the province; is a city of considerable commercial importance, and has good coal-mines in the neighbourhood; there are a great palace, and numerous temples; Irish and Scotch Presbyterian and Roman Catholic missions have a centre here; the Japanese invasion of 1894-98 was directed towards it.
Population (circa 1900) given as 250,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Muir, Sir William * Mull