Under the Dragon Flag: My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War (Japan Library (rl))

Excerpt: ...no doubt, of the exposure I had recently undergone. It was nothing serious, but caused a feeling of great lassitude and depression, and confined me indoors for some ten or twelve days. I had the place almost to myself, as the approach of the Japanese armies had not been favourable to custom, and the usual course of travel to and from the north had been suspended. Sen was anxious to learn from me whether I considered it advisable for residents and townspeople to leave the port. I replied, as I sincerely thought, that the Japanese, if they succeeded in taking the 63 place, would do no harm to non-combatants. I was, however, fatally mistaken. The inn was a place of two storeys