TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
Some minor changes are noted at the end of the book.
PORT ARTHUR
[Illustration: _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 GLANCE 15
INTRODUCTORY
THE INVESTMENT, SIEGE, AND CAPTURE OF PORT ARTHUR 17
CHAPTER I
THE CITY OF SILENCE 33