A secret agent in Port Arthur
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.
I do not profess to have attempted to compile anything like a detailed story of the siege. Instead, I have preferred to give merely my own experiences in Port Arthur and elsewhere in Manchuria and the Far East; to describe what I saw, to repeat something of what was told to me, to say what I thought of such happenings as interested me, and to write of the people whom I met when in quest of information. Some of the things I have set down may throw sidelights upon certain phases of the war, and if what I have written induces readers to think for themselves what ought to be the policy in the Far East of Great Britain and the United States, then my object will have been attained.
NO one who has seen anything of the fighting between the Russians and the Japanese needs to make any apology when presenting to the public a truthful account of any events of which he_ was an eye-witness. Very little was actually seen by any newspaper correspondent, and every history of the war, and even of each campaign, must depend for many particulars upon official reports, with which the public is familiar.
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NO one who has seen anything of the fighting between the Russians and the Japanese needs to make any apology when presenting to the public a truthful account of any events of which he_ was an eye-witness. Very little was actually seen by any newspaper correspondent, and every history of the war, and even of each campaign, must depend for many particulars upon official reports, with which the public is familiar.
I do not profess to have attempted to compile anything like a detailed story of the siege. Instead, I have preferred to give merely my own experiences in Port Arthur and elsewhere in Manchuria and the Far East; to describe what I saw, to repeat something of what was told to me, to say what I thought of such happenings as interested me, and to write of the people whom I met when in quest of information. Some of the things I have set down may throw sidelights upon certain phases of the war, and if what I have written induces readers to think for themselves what ought to be the policy in the Far East of Great Britain and the United States, then my object will have been attained.
Contents
I Secret Agents, Correspondents and Spies ...... .1
II Russia and Manchuria before the War 18
III life at Port Arthur .... 39
IV War S8
V Hiding in Port Arthur .... 78
VI Last Days in Port Arthur . . .114
VII The Day's Work 136
VIII In Neutral Territory . . . .158
IX Consuls, Correspondents and Others. 179
X The Battle of Tashichiao . . . 204
XI The Japanese as Conquerors . . . 222
XII Contrasts and Comparisons . . '233
XIII The Attack on Port Arthur . . . 249
XIV The Defence of Port Arthur. . . 268
XV Japan's Requirements and China's Future 295
Facsimile of Author's Instructions. frontispiece
Facsimile of Notice as to Cables. to face 190
Plan of Tashichiao ...... 207
Map of the Russian Retreat on Haicheng. .216
Plan of Port Arthur ...... 269
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