Two of the Great Twenty-eight Centimeter Siege Guns 220 Shells Waiting to be Hurled into Port Arthur 221 Scenes Near Port Arthur During the Long Siege 222 Infantry Hidden by Cornfields and Ravines 223 Japanese Infantry Creeping Through a Cornfield 224 Japanese War Balloon Near Port Arthur 225 General Nogi and His Staff, Conquerors of Port Arthur 226 With the Japanese as They Closed in Around Port Arthur 227 Incidents of the Surrender of Port Arthur 228 One of the Many “Bomb-Proofs” Used by Civilians 229 Engineers’ Stores Set on Fire by Japanese Shells 230 Japanese Shell Bursting in the Basin 231 View of the Old Town After a Bombardment 232 The Price of Victory 233 Russian Dead Awaiting Burial 234 Photographer’s Studio at Port Arthur After it had been Struck by Japanese Shells 235 Views of Port Arthur in October 236 Inside Some of the Russian Forts After the Surrender 237 Scenes at Port Arthur After the Surrender 238–239 Sunken Russian Battleships 240 Harbor of Port Arthur when the Japanese Took Possession 241 Convalescent Russian Sailors and Japanese Nurses 242 Views at Port Arthur and with a Russian Battery on the Hun River 244 Russian Cavalry and Native Horsemen in the Neighborhood of Mukden 245 Muster of One of Kuroki’s Divisions After the Battle of Mukden 246 Mukden Neighborhood Before the Japanese were Near 247 Where Some of the Shells Burst During the Artillery Duels Near Mukden 248 Desolation in the Path of the Japanese Attack 249 Scenes in the Vicinity of Mukden 250 Fighting Ships of Various Classes in Russia’s Baltic Fleet 253 Formidable Fighting Ships of Russia’s Baltic Fleet 254 Four of the Battleships of Russia’s Baltic Fleet 255 The Battleground of the War and the Victorious Progress of the Japanese 256 INTRODUCTION [Illustration: NICHOLAS II EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, WORRIED BY THE WAR ]