JAPAN: Despair in Dairen

The hugest, most lavishly gorgeous mansion in Dairen—near Port Arthur on the Yellow Sea—contains 35 pleasingly proportioned young women of assorted races, with their servants. Last week these young women were extremely anxious about their Chinaman and whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang...