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CHAPTER III
FIRST GLIMPSE OF PORT ARTHUR
(See Maps, Appendix II and III)
I
T was on July 30th that the Russians
retreated from their last advanced positions
and took shelter behind their line of permanent
fortifications around Port Arthur. On the same
day the Japanese occupied the abandoned posi-
tions, and at last, after nearly ten weary weeks of
marching and fighting and lying-in-wait, they saw
before them the famous Russian stronghold, which
once for a few months had been their own, won in
fair fight, but lost to them again by Russian wiles.
Try to imagine their feelings. There, on the other
side of the valley, not more than an hour’s walk
away, was this Port Arthur, which had filled their
thoughts and possessed their minds for months
and for years, which they had been fighting their
way towards for weeks and for months, and
which they were now going, by a supreme effort,
to wrest from the hands of the enemy and win
back for their country. One can imagine the
elated feelings that swelled their breasts, and the
vistas of honour and glory that opened up before
them, when, at last, they saw their goal so near,
and apparently at their mercy.
The men who stood there gazing towards Port
Arthur knew how the people at home had been
waiting for and looking forward to the capture of
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