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PORT ARTHUR
From a painting by Massanovich From Everybody’s Magazine, by permission GOING INTO ACTION Out from the maize, on a dog trot, springs a battalion, pushing across the winnowed terraces, over the stubble. Scientific fanatics, they, pressing on up to the griddle of death.
PORT ARTHUR A MONSTER HEROISM
BY
RICHARD BARRY
Illustrations from Photographs taken on the field by the Author
NEW YORK
MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY
1905
Copyright, 1905, by Moffat, Yard & Company
Published April, 1905
TO FREMONT OLDER
Grateful acknowledgment of permission to reprint some of the articles and photographs which enter, with additional new material, into the redaction of this volume is made to the Century Magazine, Everybody’s Magazine, Collier’s Weekly, the Saturday Evening Post, the Scientific American, the London Fortnightly Review and Westminster Gazette, the Paris L’Illustration and Le Monde Illustre, and the London Illustrated News, Black and White, Sphere and Graphic, in which journals they in part originally appeared. The reproduction of the frontispiece in oils by Mazzanovich, redrawn from Mr. Barry’s snapshot on the field, is here made by courtesy of Everybody’s Magazine.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PAGE
The Siege at a Glance15
INTRODUCTORY
The Investment, Siege, and Capture of Port Arthur17
CHAPTER I
The City of Silence33
CHAPTER II
The Invisible Army40
CHAPTER III
Two Pictures of War—A Glance Back67
CHAPTER IV
The Japanese Kitchener81
CHAPTER V
Camp108
CHAPTER VI
203-Meter Hill118
CHAPTER VII
A Son of the Soil142
CHAPTER VIII
The Bloody Angle152
CHAPTER IX
A Battle in the Storm164
CHAPTER X
The Cremation of a General183
CHAPTER XI
The General’s Pet191
CHAPTER XII
Courting Death Under the Forts198
CHAPTER XIII
From Kitten to Tiger211
CHAPTER XIV
Scientific Fanatics234
CHAPTER XV
Japan’s Grand Old Man253
CHAPTER XVI
The Cost of Taking Port Arthur276
CHAPTER XVII
A Contemporary Epic289
CHAPTER XVIII
The New Siege Warfare316
EPILOGUE
The Downfall339
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
OPPOSITE PAGE
Going into Action. From a Painting by Massanovich. Out from the maize, on a dog trot, springs a battalion, across the terraces, over the stubble, these Scientific Fanatics press on, up the Griddle of DeathFrontispiece
Richard Barry and Frederick Villiers. They were mess-mates during the siege. Mr. Villiers, the veteran war artist of seventeen campaigns, was dean of the War Correspondents at Port Arthur. The photograph shows them before their Dalny home34
Starting for Port Arthur. Reserve regiment leaving Dalny for the firing line, eighteen miles away46
General Baron Nogi, Commander of the Third Imperial Japanese Army, studying the Defenses of Port Arthur in his Manchurian Garden in the Willow Tree Village62
General Baron Kodama, Chief of the Japanese Staff, standing on his door step84
Bo-o-om! Discharge of the Japanese 11-inch mortar during the Grand Bombardment of October 29th. This gun stood a mile and a half from Port Arthur and is shown firing into the Two Dragon Redoubt. The vibration made a clear photograph impossible112
The Hyposcope. Lieutenant Oda looking from 203-Meter Hill through the hyposcope at the Russian fleet in the new harbor at Port Arthur120
Orphans. Driven from home by shells which killed their father and mother, these brothers tramped from camp to camp selling eggs148
Human Barnacles. Clinging to the bases of the forts, like barnacles to a ship, these sturdy Japanese existed in wretched quarters throughout the summer, autumn and half the winter160
Ammunition for the Front180
How They Got in. Eighteen miles of these terminal trenches were dug through the plain before the Russian forts202
The Last Word. The officer is giving last instructions to his men before the Grand Assault of September 21st. This photograph was taken in the front Parallel, 300 yards from the Cock’s Comb Fort222
Preparing for Death. A superstition holds that the Japanese soldier who dies dirty finds no place among the Shinto shades; so, before going into action, every soldier changes his linen, as this one is doing241
A map of Port Arthur. Showing the defenses and the direction of the Japanese attack281
Home. The shack, 800 yards from the firing line, occupied for three months by the fighting General Oshima, Commander of the Ninth Division290
Plunder. Showing Adjutant Hori, Secretary to General Oshima, standing near plunder taken from the captured Turban Fort290
In action. Loading a 4.7 gun of the ordinary field artillery during the assault of September 20th312
The Osacca Babe. Loading the 11-inch coast defense mortar during the general bombardment of October 29th, two miles from Port Arthur332
Cloud girt among her mountains, Nippon, in wrath as of old, Unleashes her young warrior; Lo, the world’s champion behold! He comes abysmal as chaos, A boy with the smile of a girl, Tumbles his man with a handshake, And spits him up with a twirl. Nourished on rice and a dewdrop, He fans him to sleep with a star, Believing the fathers of Nippon Created things as they are. So up and across the short ocean He sails to the land of can’t, To keep up the name of his fathers And smash down the things that shan’t. Ah! What a freshet of glory When into the noisy fray Against a shaggy old giant Comes this youth asmile and gay!