THE INVESTMENT OF PORT ARTHUR.
> While the fighting was proceeding on tho bank of tho Yalu, the Japanese transports, with the second army, were being convoyed across the Yellow Sea to land in the Gulf of Liao-tun^-. The cruisers Akagi, Oshima. and Chokai, and the twentieth torj pedo flotilla, in compauy with 60 transports, arrived off Kin-chau, on the eastern coast of Liao-tang Peninsula, slightly north of Port Arthur. At daylight on May 5 the Naval Brigade, under the command of Captain Nomoto, were the fh\st to land, and Look potbes'Jon of the heights commanding the landing-place. The transports Were unable to go close into shore, and • men were forced lo wade through the | water for a com-iderabic distance. When j the fu.^t batch of men were landed they | commenced to build pontoons, and by the i evening of the same daj 10,000 men had j been landed. Two Japanese columns were i despatched towards the railway, one column to the. west, while the other was -lent ! south-west. A train crowded with sick from i Port Arthur was fired upon by the Japanj ese, but it managed io get clear before rhe ! columns reached the railway line. The j inve-.ture of Port Arthur has now begun.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2622, 15 June 1904, Page 30
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206THE INVESTMENT OF PORT ARTHUR. Otago Witness, Issue 2622, 15 June 1904, Page 30
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