Port Arthur now looks more quiet and things are beginning to settle back to their normal state. The shops which had nearly all been closed, the people having fled, are being opened gain. The port was for a time almost deserted, in tact nobody remained who had the means to get away, for they were in dread of another such massacre as occurred at the time of the war with Japan. The houses still show the marks of this outrage, the shot holes remain, the walls are partly destroyed, and it seems as if they would never be repaired.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.