The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-07

the rock was being used to i'll in the framework l went on past this and found myself right opposite the two battleships which were aground. The tugs were busy attempting to tow off the innermost one. Hundreds of feet above me frowned the stonework of the Russian fort, with the sentries pacing the rampant. Straight below me were two batteries Of small quickfiring guns (about 6 or I2-pOunders) one of four guns, the other of three, with sentries over them and gun attachments in groups behind them. The guns pointed straight across the entrance. Behind these batteries and between my position and the entrance to the East Port were great stores of coal, covering several acres. most of it brought. by the irony Of fate, l believe, from Japan. Turn ing back, l went uphill to the right, where the open sea west of the head land was visible. A succession of hills along the shore stretched up to the semicircle of hills mentioned above A battery of five big guns, about 9-inch, were to be seen against the skyline about 400 yards off me. facing south from the seaward side of the headland. Inland, some distance behind the doekyard, is a stretch of fresh water which is being gradually filled up by the Russians with rock from the ex- cavations. At 11:S0 o'clock l was be- yond this, among the barracks on the plain. walking away from the town. Suddenly a gun fired from the headland. Then quickly other guns took up the tune. With a vicious whiz a Japanese shell (which I could see) came hurting and turning horizontally through the air. burying itself in an open space fifty yards to my right. This brought to my recollection a pressing engage ment behind a hill few hundred yards to my left. A few soldiers ran past me to their barracks to fall in. Russian officer walking quietly along. Eight ships" he said. I reached the shelte. of the hill. and stopped by a Chinese 1ean-to house in the side of the hill, where at intervals Chinese erept duietely in, like rabbits into hole A shell came over me and fell plump through the ice in the lake behind. Others seemed-only seemed, of course to shave our heads. The Chinese be- gan 10 pour ia in hundreds from the dockyard and streamed across the ice away from the town. Meanwhile all the Russian batteries were hard at 1t; from the headland, where the guns were using black powder, from the five-gun battery, from another just to my left, and from others beyond. About 400 Russian infantry began to come up the roads under shelter towards the forts at a quick march. A short time before had heard a regimental band playing, and saw the recruits on the square. Soon after twelve o'clock the fire be- gan to slacken, and I went to the top of the hill, buying on the way from q , Chinaman a fragmentary present from Japan. From the top fleet cireling slowly round. one ship behind the other like hornests nest disturbed, There were five battleships, four cruis- CTS and one ship of the volunteer fleet Exclusive, of course. of the two hattle- ships aground) and stretching away for about mile to the left twelve tor- pedo boats and destroyers. There was haze out to sea and so no sign of the Japanese fleet. Presently the infantry began to move back. with the exception Of one company, who began carrying ammunition up to the battery on my left front from a magazine well shell tered behind hill.
 On my way back to the town passed women going back to a block of white houses on the skyline, q hospital that had apparently not been used, and q stretcher that had. The quay was almost deserted, and Chinamen were barricading up their shops Luckily there we're one boatman and one sanp- an. My ship was about seventy yards off One dollar" he said; it was twenty times the usual fare, but war time, war prices. Half way across he stopped and demanded his dollar, prelude probably. to demanding more; but firm attitude and a stick per- suaded him to continue. The Wen chow was lying in line with the en- trance to the harbor. During the bonn bardment shells and splinters had fall- an near her and gone over her. On shore there had been a panic and