Port Arthur

Going into Action. From a Painting by Massanovich. Out from the maize, on a dog trot, springs a battalion, across the terraces, over the stubble, these Scientific Fanatics press...

Dalny, August 3d: Guns have blown their thunder to us distantly all the afternoon. The sounds boom a low thud with monotonous distinctness. Lounging on the taffrail of a small c...

Ho-o-zan, (the Phœnix Mountain) three miles from and looking into Port Arthur, Sept. 14th: Here we are with the Third Imperial Army waiting for Russia’s downfall in the Far East...

Tokyo, June 1st:--Who pays for the war? Here are a few telling one another that they are the bankers. It is at a Sunday concert in the fifth city of the world, a wilderness of s...

“That’s it. Who is he? They couldn’t do more for the Emperor--special train, guard mounted, and all that. He came while I was in the staff tent--a mite of a fellow in a huge coat.”

Before Port Arthur, Headquarters Third Imperial Army, Oct. 9th: We have left the mountain--the Phœnix--where by day we saw artillery duels and by night flashes of lightning illu...

What Blaine’s unfortunate “three R’s” were to his Presidential campaign “203-Meter Hill” was to the siege of Port Arthur. Risen to the dignity of key to the situation, it had, i...

Headquarters Third Imperial Army, Before Port Arthur, Oct. 9th: Often we dine with the Army’s leaders. To-day all the temporary occupants of the headquarters village, which incl...

General Nogi’s Headquarters Before Port Arthur, Oct. 22d: To-day we went to the Eternal Dragon, and looked in on the bloody angle. D’Adda was with me--the Marquis Lorenzo D’Adda...

Ho-o-zan (the Phœnix Mountain), Manchuria, August 28th:--Ninety-six hours of almost incessant fighting--from sun to moon, from moon to searchlight and from searchlight to dawn--...

Before Port Arthur, Sept. 27th.--Major-General Yamamoto was shot and instantly killed two days ago. The brigade he commanded--one leading the right wing of the Army--had capture...

He was small, like all his race, and he looked as harmless as a musician. In fact, his eyes had the dreaminess of a musician’s, and the clasp of his hand was like that of a woma...

It was in August that the Japanese took the Eternal Dragon, advanced their outposts beyond its walls, threw up trenches, and settled down this inch nearer the coveted goal. In t...

Headquarters, Third Imperial Army, Before Port Arthur, Sept. 30th:--We went yesterday to the foremost firing line, where all the venom of war is concentrated in a score of yards...

Noon found me well up toward the firing line, assured by the staff that it would be the day of days. To get there I passed a mile and more of batteries--the Osacca guns vomiting...

The Itos are the Smiths of Japan. There is one President of the Privy Council, one the chief naval authority and head of the naval board. There are two generals named Ito and st...

Port Arthur stood formidable and haughty on the night of February 8th, when Togo first saluted it with his turret six-inchers. That salute of the shell was lengthy and costly. F...

That Port Arthur would fall on the 21st of August was believed by every man in the Japanese army; the island nation was sure of it; the world thought it certain. And the Japanes...

One morning in August General Nogi stood before his battalion commanders at Port Arthur with a pick in his hand. Its nose and heel had been worn away until the shank of rusted i...