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fortress has been besieged since the days of
Sebastopol fifty years ago, so that there have
been a hundred different important problems, the
solution of which had no precedent and could be
ascertained solely by practical experiments.
But apart from the purely military interest
attaching to the siege of Port Arthur, this great
struggle forms, from a human point of view, a
most fascinating study, with all its dramatic
episodes and stirring events, with all its sufferings and
heroic devotion, with its ruses and bold strokes,
its cleverly thought-out moves and counter-moves,
where wit was pitched against wit, and the
opponents vied with each other in displaying the most
wonderful gallantry and the most stubborn
endurance.
While, therefore, in the following pages I have
tried to give a complete exposé of the military moves
and dispositions, and to discuss the ways and
means adopted by the Japanese for their great
undertaking, I have not forgotten the more human
side of the picture, but have endeavoured to make
the events stand out with something of the dramatic
force and vividness with which they happened.
B. W. N.
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