The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-04


 Port Arthur--A Monster Heroism. By Richard Barry.-Never was a finer oe- scription given of big, stirring events than is in this book of MT. Barry's- The book Is a panorama of realities, mar yellously vivid pictures of the horrors of war
 Only verestchaggin in paint and Zola in words, declares the dean of war cor respondents. Villiers, have told the truth about war. He must add to ms list---Barry.
 The book is not only the most start iingly realistic picturing of the scenes, incidents, heroism of the long seize, is a concise and exact history or tnis mighty military exploit from its begin ming, February 9th, 1904, to US eno' January 2nd, 1905.
 MT. Barry sets clearly before his read CTS the situation at Port Arthur.
 Through his pages the reader sees plainly as through hyposcope TOT the minds eye the two concentric lines. or Notifications about the city; beyond these the semi-permanent defenses' tne clustering forts one supporting the other, so that once captured 1t became at once the target for the fire Of the others thus rendering the holding py the enemy of positions seized well nign impossible Even beyond these fortl- fications the defenses extended eish- 
 and Port Arthur lay four lines. of en- trenchments, extending from sea 10 sea. Nature had by the steep slope oI the hills by their conical formatlon anu concentric arrangement, laid the pan of a fortress-city whose promise o' mpregnability-man's skili hao con, pleted. The engineers had not 1alieu fo make use of every suggestion Of na- ture. every summit of the circling hills, we believed through MT Barry's mental hyposcope, crowned with its massive fort. s
 Behind these forts and lines or de. fense were gathered every agency or 5 .,nstruction that science has in these late decades given to warfare -raplo fire guns machine guns, smokeiess Dowder. artillery of high velocity, ana great range, high explosive shells the magazine rifle, the telescope slghI glV- ing marvellous accuracy of nre, ene range-finder, giving instantaneously the exact distance of the enemy tne searchlight, the telegraph and the teie- phone starlight bombs, baroed wire entang clements"
 with equal clearness, Mfr. Barry de- picts each event and incident Of the long seize, of the many nerce pateA1s :. , with superb descriptive power, ne makes vivid and real to the reader the story of this sequence of momentous dates in the long seize;
 February 8. 1904, the night attack on Port Arthur by torpedo boats
 February g. the closing or Port AT thur by sea- 1,..or
 Nav 29. occupation of Dabny.
 Aurust 9-11, Taikushan and Snaku- chan taken by the Japanese, and the Russians fastened into their perhla- uent Notifications .no September 1, the Japanese begin the
 
 December 4, the Japanese take zo0 Meter Hill. the point of observation that bears on all Port Arthur ana tue 1 December IS. the capture of the Cocks Comb. .,r. of the Cocks Comb and or the i"o
 January 9. 1905, the surrender oi Stoessel ..o,r n, events of the long seize. MT. Barry, II his pages, has set the cnain ,,,' wi,n r,,,stes ries of heroism that glow like rupies 1wifh legend of patriotism that shlh' iika diamonds. with tales of the ten Ierness of comradeship that gliste' like pearls. , .o, of Tb, Young Lieutenant: AL,
 "Ear in advance of the squad on th' p fort a young lieutenant is running carried out of himself in passion, 1ool Ieb in zeal, waving his sword Almos, eiftv wards behind him, his neares ule-sergeant lurched stolidly on.
 .From all the Russian batteries from silent hooks. from huge opei emnIacements, from mountain recess ag from the entire line of parapets ,t oonoes-the Russian reply-the dead iv shrapnel downward shooting blt' nf lead and steel. Anyway, 1t is glo rious death-this of the infantry sol dier storming Port Arthur, nfted oi the crest of the worlds fiercest pas sion, puffed with vapor as tho crest O a tossed one! The young orh ser waves his sword. The line-ser peant stolidly climbs-that hail hursting steel meets them again Ine! struggle on-then commence dropping one by one, by the dozen, fifteen at time two by twO-the young once nauses, Just for moment ne IlhgeV and then digs his boots into the crate that one of these friendly smells tor out for him an hour before. Wlthou sgaitine for his men, fifty yards be vond the nearest, he leaps to the papa net reels for an instant on the sky fine. then plunges out of sight. Wha nouet have been his fate inside there alone. before his men came upI wa he shot down as he entered? Dld n keep the Russians at pay tlll ms sup sorts came up? Dear foolish boy, dl you think that, single-handed. wit fhat bit of steel, you could take Por Arthur? ,. ,o reeded. Now that the charm Is brok en, they no longer skulk, but ru eagerly to the crater and tumble ir
 At a quarter-post where the Youn Lieutenant started on Eis mad erranc Al a quarter post, too, the flag of tn Rising Sun floated from both mort corners of the P. Fort"
 It is the one man who makes ms tory. who turns the tide of battle wheth or his name be emblazoned on tn naqes of song or story, or whether h rots are unnamed and forgotten corps in the trenches of the dead on th m AeId. As thrilling is the story Of tn charge of the Immortal Smith in one c The fierce assaults of August.
 :The Immortal Smith, was ordered | hross tine field to the foot of the slop