The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-12-01
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4. certa IN mod lest $harbor which thsesy
D found left peacsably TO d Chinese Ash
u ing image. He Dor was small.
!. Isunning from east to west it meas.
q t,red the distance of about two miles,
a and not quite one MT e wide. Il was
4 situated at the end of the lao tu1s: \:
peninsula. n those days few, even
d among the statesmen of Nippon saw
4 Fin that toe OF the o-tunS adasger
Il point aimed at@tlle very hea 1T of JaA
/ pan. AS if the harbor We're not srnaft
Eeno,gh as it Is, nature has diyided
4 into two sections; the east and vest
4 harbors, AS il these We're not trials
4 quite enough Til wal ter OF the htlrBor.
was found 70 be very shallow. m
the east harbor there is. a very small
space In which a large vessel coutd8
/ find Itself comfortable. The entrance
Ito this harbor was scarcely three
/ hundred yards in width. AS YOU ensz
ter 1t Golden Hill looks down upon
.yon from the right, aud 4 to the leftzftss
the Tigers Tail.
Even In those days, aoweYe Il was.
not ditt1cult to see how much heaven
had done for this odest harbor. The
screen of Hill ranges enYelopetl ft$
completely from the winds sof; the
Pe-chi,li and from human foes ev erSss
where, Even to the casual eye twas
evident that this little harbor wa S u
nature bull naval base China fort
fed it+with German skill and German
guns. Even IN t kaS avs OF the Chino
Japanese War German engineers wterel
saying that 1t was I'M oregnab BILE. Ge1s
tainlys!it$ command ed the entrance toEI
the Gultsof Peschit1i: Il If you wished 90
drive fang into the throat COT PelSina
yoIl had onlysto occupy this base#w1th /
statesmen of Japan were not slow ltsEl
seeing that the master OF Port Arthur:
is heHmaster OF the low sea In
the hands OF a hostile and competent
is a veritable dagger threaE
ening$ the Very vitals OF Japan. VII icliE
is within thirty-odd hours OF hostile.
feet IN its harbo I'm
AT the close of the Chino-NippoH
war China coded to Japan PortsAr thuT Il
and tile southern end OF the Limo. tuns5s.E
peninsula, Even while the ink ENv
hardly dry upon the famous ShimorsE
oaetsi treaty the triple combtnati ion
Of European powers Of Russia, Ter e
many and France Sad vised Japan:
through a polite joint note and extern.
sfveS naval preparation OF the COM
otned feet OF the three powers I'M the,
Iulf Of PeSchi-ii,S to reconsider cers ss
ain. portion of the treaty and retro-4f
cede to China the Lao-tung peninsula
With Port "a rthurs at the end of &itEY You
Know as we'll as Il do that VIII en- Mar e
Iuis Ito and his wise friends sawstheS 81
Wisdom of hardening unit the allied
tdvice of these three Christian Ma 50
ions. and when he gagged the press*lss
md returned to China. the Liao.tung
peninsula and Port Arthur. more than
me hundred soldiers who had Tough t
n 5Manchuria in the ChfnoENippon8 war q
ook it as the BLACKLIST stain on ia I
ans National honor, as an unparat s
sled snut11tlatlonEOt8a -Nat1on5 8hlci1S 70
ad never before been Inundated by
3 foreign power They wished 8topur$ :z,
ais on record, and SO they wrote their 81
rotest with their own blood by com SIS SIS
lifting the hara-kiri, by that ancient /:
ght of the samurai, hic11 says to s.
re world that they would rather&die
ian see dishonor. In the eyes of3tIe i
Upon soldier in frontsof Port5Arthur
'-day the occupation Of the strong
Did is more than a tactical victory. =
Q him the occupation Of Port Arthur 8ss
Important from he mi litary sense.
erhaps more important, however,
an the strictly military phrase Of IT,,
e occupation of Port Arthur s$to
m sentimental, almost religious. To ~
:cupy Port Arthur again seems to 6
m like washing the darkest stain
pm hisSsun-round flag once for all.
To-day around Port Arthur men
pm England : from the United States, a a
pm France, from Germany, war COR t sEs<
spondents and military attaches are 1lls
wing with one accord here is M III