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THE GREAT SIEGE
THE INVESTMENT AND FALL
OF PORT ARTHUR
CHAPTER I
KUANG-TUNG PENINSULA
T
he few foreign correspondents who were
attached to the 3rd Imperial Japanese Army
landed in Dalny on August 3rd. On that
date the Russians had been driven back behind
their lines of permanent fortifications around
Port Arthur, and the Japanese had occupied
strong offensive positions about three or four
thousand yards from the fortress, and were pre-
paring for a vigorous assault. Until these
preparations had been completed, we were not
allowed to the front, but had, for two weeks, to be
content with listening to the far-off booming of the
guns by day and watching the blueish-white rays
from the searchlights shooting across the sky at
night.
Meanwhile we were taken round to the different
places in the country, from Nanshan and south-
wards, where fighting had taken place, and the
strategical and tactical operations and dispositions
were explained to us on the spot. We walked all
over the battle-fields and the whole theatre of
operations, and gained a thorough knowledge of the
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