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NANSHAN TO PORT ARTHUR 13
understanding of the events of the siege to give a
short rdsicme of the operations of the opposing
armies in the Kuang-tung peninsula, which form
the opening chapters of this great drama. I
obtained most of my facts from Major Yamaoka,
of the Japanese General Staff. This officer was
deputed by General Nogi to explain to us the
military operations of the Third Army, from the
battle of Nanshan to the capture of the final
positions before Port Arthur, so that I give there-
fore what is virtually the Japanese official account
of these operations.
The battle of Nanshan was fought on May
26th. The Japanese troops taking part were the
1st, the 3rd and the 4th Army Divisions, Avhich
had been landed at Pitzewo in the beginning of
May. After the capture of the most important
Nanshan position, the 3rd and the 4th Divisions
marched north, and from thence became part of
the Second (General Oku’s) Army. The ist
Division, soon joined by the nth, formed the
nucleus of the Third Army under General Nogi,
to whom had been entrusted the task of taking
Port Arthur.
General Nogi landed in Yentao Bay on June
1st, and established his headquarters in Pei-pao-
tze-ai, a small village some seven miles to the
west of Dalny. His forces, with a front twelve or
thirteen miles long, stretched right across the
Kuang-tung peninsula from coast to coast, from
An-tze-shan in the north, across Moto-shitogo to
Tai-shuh-shan in the south, the ist Division form-
ing the right, and the nth the left wing.
After the defeat of the Russians at Nanshan,
General Nogi probably did not anticipate any very
determined resistance before reaching the perma-
nent fortifications round Port Arthur. The com-
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