PORT ARTHUR A DEATH-TRAP
VIEWS OF LIEUTENANT FREEMAN. "Yes, I well remember the late Lieut. Freeman's remarks about Port Arthur," said a personal friend of the late officer, in conversation with a "Star' representative. "It was in the Northern Club, shortly after Lieut. Freeman's return from China, that we were discussing the manner in which Russia had been allowed to obtain what then appeared to be a valuable concession. Lieut. Freeman had different views. TDo you know,' he said to mc, 'that Russia is the only Power which would be so insane aa to seize such a useless port!' "Mo/ he added; 'I'll say more than that. If Russia want to shut herself up in a death-trap, there's no Power that is particularly anxious to prevent her.' •'Looking to Lieut. Freeman's remarkable knowledge of his profession in general, and of the Far East in particular, aoid still more looking to the fact that these views seemed almost prophetic, they struck mc very forcibly at the time."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1904, Page 5
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