In daytime the scene is also animated if less picturesque by reason of the hideously Vare and bleak appearance of the hills which surround the town and the unsightly heaps of rubbish and building material which cumber the ground in all directions Soldiers marching past sometimes with banner and band, most often with pots and pans, dispatch riers tearing by at a bre neck pace; Generals and high officers of the army and navy rolling by in drop whose dusty and battered appearance contrasts strangely as a rule with the uniform and decorations of the occupants 5 soldiers tugging cannon from the station; Chinese coolies passisy: stores and. provisions for the military into bargee-which. will convey them to the other side ofthe: harbour—these are some of the things once sees by daylight. Soldiers are of course everywhere, except in the Parks, which they are expressly forbidden to enter. They are seldom well-dressed; in fact their uniform is often patched and greasy to an incredible extent, but they have a swagger with them that shows they feel themselves about the only really necessary people in Tecan quite believe what has ven rep red about their comrades in Manchuria having composed a song which ith justifiable poetic licen © that have China across. their knee, that jand is afraid. panese Guests.
There are a considerable nuniber of Japanese in Port Arthur and, although none of them seem to be doing business on a large scale owing to that great drawback toall extensive Japanese enterprise here, lack of capital, they are not getting on at all badly on the whole, and are certainly not treated with anything approaching disrespect or discourtesy.
Avis not often, however, that we see here two such distinguished Japanese visitors as arrived here by railway the other day from the north. I refer to the Japanese officers who recently visited Khabarovsk and the omsk-Ussouri district, Major Aba of the General Stafand Major-General Akiys commander of Brigade. These officers were accompanied to Khabarovsk by the following Russian officers of the General Staff, Kamensky and 'Tuchkoff, the later commander of the Ist Resiment of East Siberian sharpshooters; and they first visited the commander of the district, thea the 24th Regiment of East Siberian Sharpshooters, and afterwards the Cadets' School and the Girls' muasium, after which brool was served in the Military Club, where they rested for sume time. At eight o'clock in the evenii the day of their arrival a dinner was given in their honour by Leu tenant-General Leneviteh, commander of the Military Dis'rict of Pre"moursky; the General in command of the Khabarovsk garrison being among those preseat on the ce: The first toast was in honour of d by the band Russian and Ja-
throughout the course of the meal.
On the succeeding day the Japanese pected the 3rd Battalion of the berian Brigade and the Museu: n, Breakfast was afterwards served in the Military Club and in the afternoon of the the vis tore left for Port Arthur ey were met at the railway station by Captain Matusevich of the General Stuff, adjutant of the Commander-in-chief of the
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