Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-05-01
A NEW PORT ARTHUR,
JAPANESE BUSILY RECONSTRUCT
ING DEFENSES.
Landward Side Protected by Rows Of
Long Range Guns-Dalny Also
Strongly Fortified.

In view of the renewed interest
aroused in Port Arthur by the recent
condemnation of Gen. Stoessel, it may
Voice of Moscow portions of the article
OF Russian correspondent in that great
Japanese fortress, who seems to be par
ticularly Observant.
He says that Port Arthur and Dalny
have changed very much since the war.
Under Russian rule Port Arthur was an
international town, full of life, and after
the japanese came into possession of it,
1t promised to be even liveler than ever.
The roads were repaired, the quays re-
neWed, the water supply improved, Japa-
neSe and Chinese merchants began to
establish themselves in the town and
business houses began to be built.
But suddenly something happened.
All at once Port Arthur became u city
of the dead. Business men quietly aban-
doned their shops, builders left their I'M
completed buildings, and from that time
has begun any new building in Port
Arthur The great supplies of provi-
sions and other goods were sent back to
Japan or into other parts of Manchu-
ria. But none except the japanese knew
what was the word that had gone forth.
Lie WuOlo 1OEueSS is UeIuS
structed on a new and unknown plan
The Notifications are being extended be-
yond their old limits and the laborers
and overseers are selected with the great
est care.
The old redoubts are not Destroyed but
all useful material in them has Oeen
moved to other sites In the cOI~truc-
ton of the Notifications great att 2ntion
has been paid to the selection of the best
WI q
concentrated on the passage through the
hills IN front, and in order to attain theI
end constant practice firing is carried on
The landward side is protected by long
range guns mounted in excellent forts
At one point alone there are 12O guns
On the seaWard side rows of guns are
visible-many of these guns were taken
from the Russians.
Trial firing is carried on more and
more frequently at night with the help OF
refectors, and to assist the gunners
whole series of signal stations has been
erected on the hills. At the bottom OF
both harbOrs and out along the seacoast
m to a distance of two miles from the
fortress some sort of work is being car
ried on: perhaps mines are being laid.
All the way to Mukden strategic posi-
tions are being selected and prepared
and strategic roads are being run through
the mountains.
AS for Dalny, 1t is strongly lofclneu W
the landward side, the entire enVlrons OF
the village of Loukku having been con
verted into fortress positions and guns
have been mounted there. On the sea
ward side Dalny is more weakly fort
fed Int on the whole it is very much
more strongly defended than when the
Russians were in possession of it.
The enormous barracks in Port Arthur
and Dalny are full of troops, and great
~ro;y, fodder hPHnS. etc, have
been collected There has lately ap
peared in Dalny a peculiar four wheeled
cast cast iron platform for carrying field guns
of the largest calibeE; % BORT Artbn,
nave hnq b been built from the main railway;
ia Large parties of japanese officers come me
frequently from J ia Port to A Sthuy and S
nalnv. hut in Mukden and Lia,,yang
Lately many troops have come and have
ali gone to Mukden.