Out-Door Staff
'ANTUNG-PORT ARTHUR
Acting Tidesurveyor-W. S. Jackson Boat Officer-T. H. Smith
Examiner P. H. Smith, J. H. Thatcher Senior Tidewaiter-A. K. Thommessen Tidewaiters J. E. Morgan, R. Yada, H. A. Smith, C. F. A. Wilbraham, W. Walker, H. Ward, M. Nanbu, T. Shinohara, M. Hasegawa, K. Mura- kami, H. Shimizu, R. Nishikawa, R. Hirano
Dist. Local Watchers-T. Kawahara, R. Sakai, T. Ise, I. Morita, Kim Mun Kiu, U. Iwasaki
TATUNGKOW CUSTOMS
Commissioner-P. C. Hansson Assistant-R. Watanabe (Antung) Tidewaiter-S. Miyasaki
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
First Class Postmaster -- Kuok Shiu
Chun
隆怡 Yi-Loong
SHAW, GEO. L.-Tel. Ad: Shaw; Chinese
Teleph. 4; Japanese Teleph. 39
Géo. L. Shaw
A. A. Tellis, accountant
Agencies
The Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ld.
757
Maatschappij tot Mijn-Bosch en Land- wouexploitatie in Langkat, Ld. (George McBain)
The Kailan Mining Administration Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld China Navigation Co., Ld. Ocean Steamship Co., Ld. China Mutual S. N. Co. Glen Line of Steamers The Robert Dollar Co.
Canadian Pacific Railway Mail S.S. Co. The P. & O. S. N. Co.
London & Lancashire Fire Ince. Co. Royal Exchange Assce. Corporation Guardian Assurance Co., Ld. Canton Insurance Office, Ld.
China Mutual Life Insurance Co., Ld. China Sugar Refining Co., Ld. The Central Agency, Ld., Glasgow
TIRIOTO CO., E., Merchants
Sei-chang
WOLTER & CO., CARL, Merchants—Tel. Ad :
Barbarossa
Carl Wolter (Hamburg)
G. Meyer (Mukden)
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK- Yamato-bashi-
kori
K. Morimoto, manager
PORT ARTHUR
Mi Lu-shun 順旅
Port Arthur, at the point of the "Regent's sword," or Liaotung Peninsula, was formerly China's chief naval arsenal, but was captured by the Japanese in the war with China in 1894 and its defences and military works destroyed. In 1898, when Russia obtained a lease of Port Arthur and Talienwan she fortified the former, making it into a great naval and military stronghold.
By the time the war between Russia and Japan broke out, an anchorage for battleships had at great cost been provided in the western harbour, and the hills surrounding the harbour had been so strongly fortified that Port Arthur had come to be regarded as an impregnable fortress. It was on the night of February 8th, 1904, that the Japanese squadron under Admiral Togo made its first attack on Port Arthur and succeeded in inflicting substantial injuries to the Russian ships. But the strength of the land defences and the dangers of a mine-strewn channel prevented the Japanese admiral from following up his success. He resolved, as the next best thing, to block the entrance to the harbour, and in this endeavour several old merchant ships and a few score of heroic lives were sacrificed, but none of the attempts proved entirely successful. It was not until May, 1904, that Port Arthur was beseiged by the Japanese forces under General Nogi, and from then onwards down to the capitulation of the fortress on January 1st, 1905, there were repeated conflicts of a most sanguinary character. When on the 5th December, 1904, the Japanese army, after many unavailing attempts, succeeded at last in capturing 203-Metre Hill they obtained the key to the