The Archive · 1904

The Condition of Port Arthur

Major-General Dessino, Russian

Military Agent, has courteously communicated to us the following telegram Port Arthur, 2nd April, On his arrival at Port Arthur the Imperial Lieutenant (Viceroy) Alexeieff visited the Czarevitch, Retvizan, and Pallada, the forts, works, and hospitals.

The outer roadstead is adorned with immense Japanese vessels perched on rocks, in the vicinity of the entrance to the port which' remains absolutely free.

The streets, the shops, and the works are full of animation. New arrivals are shown as a curiosity some houses pierced by fragments of projectiles, not a single shell having fallen into any bull ing whatever, Life at Port Arthur continues its habitual course,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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