When your correspondent wrote on the 25th September it was intimated that in about two weeks Peitaiho would be about deserted by all the summer visitors. A few of the Manchurian still remain, chiefly Indies, hoping the way will open ere long for them to return to their respective stations. All the gentle men, with possibly one or two exceptions, have already gone, and some of the ladies to those places which were considered safe, Itis noticeable that the Japanese in possession means safety as a rule; while the Russians in possession means asa rule the reverse. Of course no ladies can be permitted to go near the section where fighting is likely to occur and in some parts of the "neutral" territory the disturbed conditions of the country render it equally unsafe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.