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CHINESE CUSTOMS

ANTUNG

Commissioner-P. C. Hansson Assts.-P. W. A. Scott, R. Watanabe,

T. Jissoji, S. V. dos Remedios Out-Door Staff

Acting Tidesurveyor-W. S. Jackson Acting Boat Officer-A, K, Tellefsen Senior Tidewaiter-A. K. Thommerson Examiner P. H. Smith

Assistant Examiner-J. H. Thatcher Tidewaiters-R. Yada, S. Miyasaki, H. A. Smith, W. Walker, H. Ward, H. W. Swain, F. C. Scheerer, C. F. A. Wilbraham, S. Vrahawa J. Shino- hara

Dist. Local Watchers-T. Kawahara, R. Sakai, T. Ise, M. Nanbu, Kim Mun Kin, S. Murhain

TATUNGKOW CUSTOMS

Acting Commissioner-P. C. Hansson Assistant-in-Charge-M. Takayanagi District Local Watcher-M. Nanbu

POST OFFICE, Chinese

First Class Postmaster-Woo T'ien Tze

隆怡 Yi-Loong

SHAW, GEO. L.--Tel. Ad: Shaw; Chinese

Teleph. 4; Japanese Teleph. 39

Geo. L. Shaw

A. A. Tellis, accountant

Y. T. Wang

B. H. Lee T. S. Yuan

P. L. Tsou T. S. Wang Managing Agents

The Manchu S. S. Co., Ld. Agencies

The Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ld. 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. Pacific 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.

昌世 Sei-chang

WOLTER & CO., CARL, Merchants-Tel. Ad:

Barbarossa

Carl Wolter (Hamburg)

G. Meyer

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PORT ARTHUR

Mi Lu-shun

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 l'ort 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

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