PORT ARTHUR-TAIREN
Depart. of Public Works (Dobokukwa) K. Yamaji, engineer, acting director Coal Office (Tengokusho)
S. Kurihara, superintendent
LOCAL CIVIL ADMINISTRATORS
T. Sekiya, Dairen Prefecture
G. Kojima, Ryojun (Port Arthur)
Prefecture
T. Aiga, Kinshu Prefecture
Post And Telegraph BUREAU
(Yubindenshin Kyoku)
J. Kato, director
COURTS
Superior Court (Koto Hon)
Hon. U. Hiraishi, Chief Justice
J. Manabe, Associate Justice
N. Tsuchiya,
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S. Shimada,
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K. Sato,
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M. Owada,
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T. Midzobuchi, Crown Advocate District Court (Chiho Hoin)
T. Nishi, Chief Judge
I. Miyoshi, Associate Judge M. Owada,
S. Okada,
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Y. Yatsuhashi, Crown Advocate
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TAIREN
Tairen, the terminus of the Chinese Eastern Railway and also of the whole Siberian system, is a commercial port on the South coast of Talienwan Bay, Lat 38' 55′ 44′′ N. Long. 121° 37′ 7′′ E. It was acquired on lease from China by Russia in 1898, when it was known as Talienwan. The Russians gave it its well known name of Dalny, and expended large sums of money on laying out the city and improving the harbour in expectation of the rapid development of the port as a great emporium of foreign trade. Its present name marks its capture and possession by the Japanese.
The climate being temperate, and drainage and water works being arranged for dwellings, etc., the health of the place is always good. The hottest temperature registered in summer is 30' C., and the cold winter season is short and invigorating. Being the terminus of the railway, the port is designed to accommodate the largest ocean steaners alongside the granite wharves, which have a vertical face with 28 feet depth at low water and a length of 3,150 lineal feet. There are likewise other wharves of concrete blocks faced with granite to accommodate ships of various draughts up to 22 feet, these being in length 3,920 lin. feet. The narrowest of these wharves is 350 feet wide, and the railway lines are brought right alongside the ship- berths. The area of port territory is 132 acres, on a horizontal plane by 18 feet above low water. The inner harbour is protected by a stone and concrete breakwater 5,950 feet long, the height of the breakwater above highest tides being 10 feet. The deep water area of the harbour, inside the breakwater, is 500 acres. During the war the breakwater was partially blown up by the Russians, but is now being repaired. The wharves are lighted electrically and the channels by gas buoys. The entrance being very open, viz. 1,050 feet wide, shipping can enter the port at any time of day or state of tide. On the island of San-shantau, at the entrance to Talienwan Bay, a third- rate lighthouse stands. On this island a quarantine station is situated for infected vessels, with hospital accommodation for 20 Europeans and 100 Chinese, with a resident doctor and military guard. For discharging heavy loads the port has three steam cranes capable of lifting about 40 tons each; these are movable on the lines at the wharves. There is a granite dry dock 380 feet long, 50 feet wide at entrance, and 18 feet on the sill, with extensive repair shops attached, used by the Japanese naval authorities. A dock of 600 feet long, 90 feet wide and 30 feet on the sill is in course of construction.
What was described by the Russians as the "European town" is situated along the waterfront of the port and runs inland up a slope towards the hills on an undulating stretch of rocky country. Every house in this quarter was thoroughly looted by Chinese, when the Russians fled on May 30th, 1904. The Japanese found huge heaps of costly furniture, pianos, billiard tables, etc.. all useless at the street corners. The Chinese had broken up splendid pianos simply to take out the brass wire inside; they also cut away coloured velvet from upholstery. The interiors of
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