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KUANG-TUNG PENINSULA 5
influence. Alexeieff took but little interest in
Dalny. His plan was to make Port Arthur not
only the main naval station, but also the chief
commercial port of Manchuria. For that purpose
he set on foot extensive dredging operations in
the shallow western part of the inner harbour, and
from the end of this he commenced digging a
canal across the low, narrow’ neck of the Tiger’s
Tail peninsula, which was to form the shipping
entrance to the port, while the entrance for the
men-of-war remained the old narrow sound be-
tween the Golden Hill and the Tiger’s Tail
promontory. On the shores of the inner basin a
new city was laid out many large buildings for
the civil administration, banks, hospitals, &c.,
were erected here ;
all the inhabitants of the old
town had been ordered to move to the new town
before July, 1904, and nothing but barracks and
other military establishments were to remain.
Many houses and villas, a sumptuous hotel and
large shops were built, a park was laid out and
the foundations laid for a fine cathedral ;
in short,
the new Port Arthur rivalled Dalny both in
outward appearance and modern resources.
For a short time it seemed as if Dalny was
doomed ;
there was complete stagnation ;
but as
the military forces in Kuang-tung steadily in-
creased and Port Arthur was unable to hold them
all, a couple of regiments were quartered in
Dalny, and with the troops, life and activity
followed. Although still far from approaching
the older place in importance as a commercial
centre, Dalny had luckily got over the stagnation
period, and was in a fair way of development when
the war broke out.
To the inhabitants of Dalny the Russian reverse
at Nanshan came as a complete surprise. Never
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