Chapter I: Epilogue: The Downfall 339

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Going into Action. From a Painting by Massanovich.
Out from the maize, on a dog trot, springs a
battalion, across the terraces, over the stubble,
these Scientific Fanatics press on, up the Griddle of
Death Frontispiece

Richard Barry and Frederick Villiers. They were mess-mates
during the siege. Mr. Villiers, the veteran
war artist of seventeen campaigns, was dean of the
War Correspondents at Port Arthur. The photograph
shows them before their Dalny home 34

Starting for Port Arthur. Reserve regiment leaving
Dalny for the firing line, eighteen miles away 46

General Baron Nogi, Commander of the Third Imperial
Japanese Army, studying the Defenses of Port
Arthur in his Manchurian Garden in the Willow
Tree Village 62

General Baron Kodama, Chief of the Japanese Staff,
standing on his door step 84

Bo-o-om! Discharge of the Japanese 11-inch mortar
during the Grand Bombardment of October 29th.
This gun stood a mile and a half from Port Arthur
and is shown firing into the Two Dragon Redoubt.
The vibration made a clear photograph impossible 112

The Hyposcope. Lieutenant Oda looking from 203-Meter
Hill through the hyposcope at the Russian
fleet in the new harbor at Port Arthur 120

Orphans. Driven from home by shells which killed
their father and mother, these brothers tramped
from camp to camp selling eggs 148

Human Barnacles. Clinging to the bases of the
forts, like barnacles to a ship, these sturdy Japanese
existed in wretched quarters throughout the summer,
autumn and half the winter 160

Ammunition for the Front 180

How They Got in. Eighteen miles of these terminal
trenches were dug through the plain before the
Russian forts 202

The Last Word. The officer is giving last instructions
to his men before the Grand Assault of September
21st. This photograph was taken in the front
Parallel, 300 yards from the Cock’s Comb Fort 222

Preparing for Death. A superstition holds that the
Japanese soldier who dies dirty finds no place among
the Shinto shades; so, before going into action, every
soldier changes his linen, as this one is doing 241

A map of Port Arthur. Showing the defenses and
the direction of the Japanese attack 281

Home. The shack, 800 yards from the firing line,
occupied for three months by the fighting General
Oshima, Commander of the Ninth Division 290

Plunder. Showing Adjutant Hori, Secretary to General
Oshima, standing near plunder taken from the
captured Turban Fort 290

In action. Loading a 4.7 gun of the ordinary field
artillery during the assault of September 20th 312

The Osacca Babe. Loading the 11-inch coast defense
mortar during the general bombardment of October
29th, two miles from Port Arthur 332

Cloud girt among her mountains,
Nippon, in wrath as of old,
Unleashes her young warrior;
Lo, the world’s champion behold!

He comes abysmal as chaos,
A boy with the smile of a girl,
Tumbles his man with a handshake,
And spits him up with a twirl.

Nourished on rice and a dewdrop,
He fans him to sleep with a star,
Believing the fathers of Nippon
Created things as they are.

So up and across the short ocean
He sails to the land of can’t,
To keep up the name of his fathers
And smash down the things that shan’t.

Ah! What a freshet of glory
When into the noisy fray
Against a shaggy old giant
Comes this youth asmile and gay!