Excerpt from The Truce in the East and Its Aftermath: Being the Sequel to the Re-Shaping of the Far East As usual, there are in this volume some travel chapters, whose presence in a serious work may perhaps be excused on the ground that they show the reader something of regions which are none too well known - regions which were visited under some discomfort immediately the terms of peace had been arranged. These chapters merely give the impressions which flash across the mind of the European on his way through the country. In this connection no hesitation has been felt in returning to the important subject of Port Arthur, which not only possesses immense historical interest (since the strange story of the past eight years began in Port Arthur in but which may once more become a matter of daily discussion should another Chinese war ever take place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.