TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Some minor changes are noted at the end of the book.
PORT ARTHUR
GOING INTO ACTION
Out from the maize, on a dog trot, springs a battalion, pushingacross the winnowed terraces, over the stubble. Scientificfanatics, 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 someof the articles and photographs which enter, with additionalnew material, into the redaction of this volume is made tothe Century Magazine, Everybody’s Magazine, Collier’sWeekly, the Saturday Evening Post, the Scientific American,the London Fortnightly Review and WestminsterGazette, the Paris L’Illustration and Le Monde Illustre,and the London Illustrated News, Black and White, Sphereand Graphic, in which journals they in part originally appeared.The reproduction of the frontispiece in oils byMazzanovich, redrawn from Mr. Barry’s snapshot onthe field, is here made by courtesy of Everybody’s Magazine.
CONTENTS | |
| PREFACE | |
| PAGE | |
| The Siege at a Glance | 15 |
| INTRODUCTORY | |
| The Investment, Siege, and Capture of Port Arthur | 17 |
| CHAPTER I | |
| The City of Silence | 33 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| The Invisible Army | 40 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| Two Pictures of War—A Glance Back | 67 |
| CHAPTER IV |