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TAIREN-PORT ARTHUR

H.I.J.M's. CIVIL ADMINISTRATION

Administrator-Y. Ishizuka General Secretary-T. Sekiya Secretary-H. Shimamura

Do. -S. Irisawa Civil Engineer-K. Yamaji Chief of Police-T. Ura Police Inspector-1. Kubotani Interpreter-D. Hiraiwa

CHINESE GUILD

Liu Tzu Heng, president Ko Ching Yi, vice-president

FREE DISPENSARY

Dr. N. Yasuda, principal

HONGANJI TEMPLE

S. Otani, high priest

JAPANESE-CHINESE SCHOOL M. Asai, principal

LIO TUNG HOTEL

M. Moriya, proprietor

MANCHURIA TRADE ASSOCIATION C. Sasaki, representative

MERCHANT ASSOCIATION

DIRECTORY.

MITSUI BUSAN KAISHA Y. Go, manager

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

K Kawamura, manager

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA

Kanashima, manager

POST OFFICE

T. Yamada, post master

QUARANTINE OFFICE

S. Kurata, principal

SANITARY Department

I. Abe, principal

TAIREN HOTEL

Uchida, proprietor

TAIREN PUBLIC HOSPITAL

Dr. K. Yamanouchi, principal

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK

T. Hirata, manager

Y. M. C. A.

M. Iwamatsu, secretary

Sekihara, secretary

PORT ARTHUR MT Lu-shun 順旅

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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 victory. 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 land 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 in November, 1904, the Japanese army after many unavailing attempts, succeeded at last in capturing 203-Meter Hill they obtained the key to the position. From this point of vantage they bombarded the Russian ships in the harbour, and sank or disabled every one of them early in the month of December. Thereafter Erlungshan Fort, Signal Hill and other minor forts were captured, but not

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