Port Arthur

The general attack of Port Arthur was opened on the 19th of August. But there is July and August, we have had a sufficient supply of rain in intermittent showers, with plenty of sunshine between. As one Chi-hose expressed it, the weather could not have been better bud he managed it himself, The result is x most promising crop, put in spite of this the price of grain is unusually high. The reason is tobe sought in the fact that this part of Shantung is dependent on imparls of grain, and these have been cut off by the war and by unfavourable conditions in'Southera Shan-the agency of the Greek Church. Let us hope it means an increasing spread of that '"Tighteousness which exalteth a nation." Our. New Official isan active and capable yo from Paotingfi, who is tackling accumulation of eases left by hie predecessor with a very commendable vigour. He has somewhat upset the "Int Grundy" notions of the populace by caring more for a {ride on horseback than in tittle to be: said about. the present situation in Port Arthur. The general concensus seems to favour the idea of further delay. It is oven suggested that the operations have been virtually suspended GPinte, It is, however, safe to say that Since the opening of the general attack the Japanese have been very successful.|in occupying "some of the enemy's batteries and the Russians, on the other hand, ought to have gradually

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