A correspondent writes under dots the 18th inst "Since the Japanese occupation we are in absolute peace. No trouble whatever during the few hours of interregnum. Every trace of Russian occupation swept away during the early hours of the 10th. Not a Russian sign-board (there were hundreds of them), er even a package or bottle, formerly sold to the Russians, to be seen when the Japanese came in. All hidden, I suppose. City gay with Japanese bunting on the morning of the lith and even in the afternoon of the 10th. How delightfully pliable is the Chinese character. Enormous losses. Piles of dead in many of the villages still. General Oku is my neighbour. He lost half his army.
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