THIS DAY I saw in the street two or three drunken men, and all of them our people. _Notice_ is therefore given that from the 6th inst. every drunken person found on the street will be arrested and taken to the lock-up, and set to hard labour on the fortress. It is impossible for anything to be done now with drunkenness allowed. ORDER No. 63 THE STAFF COMMANDER will institute performances of high-class MUSIC on the Boulevards from 3 until 5 p.m. twice a week. H.E. The Viceroy, Admiral Alexeiev, was not so much in evidence; occasionally he drove through the town, and with him always were many of his staff. His notices were of the usual Court order; official acknowledgments of congratulatory telegrams, and notifications of the receipt of Imperial commands. The Tsar’s manifesto was not published until Valentine day. The Commandant knew how to revive the patriotism of the inhabitants. His appeal for volunteers to the militia was answered immediately--nearly every one capable of bearing arms was enrolled. Later, when the investment was complete, and full military duty was required, the service became irksome. As one of them told me, fourteen days in the trenches, alternating with ten days off in which to attend to private business was unbearable, as the military service unfitted him for any rôle but that of patient in a hospital. So he left Port Arthur, as did many others. It must be borne in mind that for five days after the first attack the inhabitants were without news of any sort from the outside world. On Saturday evening the _Novy Krai_ published a bulletin containing the Tsar’s manifesto, and an account of the torpedo attack and first bombardment. After that date bulletins were issued regularly for some weeks, but the news allowed to become public did not truthfully represent the progress of the war. There were many optimistic rumours current, in addition to the fanciful statements respecting Japanese losses published in the bulletin. For days every one believed that as the result of the Russian cannonade on the first day six Japanese vessels were damaged; that three Japanese warships were ashore at Chifu, and one officer informed me in good faith that although in all twelve Russian ships were lost or damaged, at that date sixteen Japanese war vessels had been put out of action by the Russian fire. Again, although on February 11 the _Enisee_ had been lost at Dalny, I was informed four days after by an officer who had just arrived from Dalny, that he had seen her the day before, that no accident had happened, and that the story of her loss was an infamous concoction.