We can get no news of war. The mass of the people do not know that any war is taking place. Only a few newspapers are seen, and their news is at least three weeks old. All this ignorance makes it easy for the officials to rule.
This city is situated at a great bend in the Han river, so that the river really flows on three sides of the city. Some time it may be washed away, but it is safe now.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.