Whatever may be said of the oings of the Japanese in Corea and Formosa, here they grasped the situation and settled down to it in a most businesslike way. Wooden buildings to serve as barracks for the tro-ps, were erected in large numbers. In some instances the old sites of Chinese camps were utilised, in other cases quite fresh Paite u The most of these buildings lots of land were secured, fenced in, and
are within two or three li of the native city; but others are as much as twelve and fifteen li from Weihai. There is probably room for ten thousand troops, though we understand there are only about seven thousand here at present.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.