TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Some minor changes are noted at the end of the book. PORT ARTHUR [Illustration: _From a painting by Massanovich_ _From Everybody’s Magazine, by permission_ GOING INTO ACTION Out from the maize, on a dog trot, springs a battalion, pushing across the winnowed terraces, over the stubble. Scientific fanatics, they, pressing on up to the griddle of death.] PORT ARTHUR A MONSTER HEROISM BY RICHARD BARRY _Illustrations from Photographs taken on the field by the Author_ NEW YORK MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY 1905 COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY _Published April, 1905_ TO FREMONT OLDER Grateful acknowledgment of permission to reprint some of the articles and photographs which enter, with additional new material, into the redaction of this volume is made to the Century Magazine, Everybody’s Magazine, Collier’s Weekly, the Saturday Evening Post, the Scientific American, the London Fortnightly Review and Westminster Gazette, the Paris L’Illustration and Le Monde Illustre, and the London Illustrated News, Black and White, Sphere and Graphic, in which journals they in part originally appeared. The reproduction of the frontispiece in oils by Mazzanovich, redrawn from Mr. Barry’s snapshot on the field, is here made by courtesy of Everybody’s Magazine. CONTENTS PREFACE PAGE THE SIEGE AT A GLANCE 15 INTRODUCTORY THE INVESTMENT, SIEGE, AND CAPTURE OF PORT ARTHUR 17 CHAPTER I THE CITY OF SILENCE 33 CHAPTER II THE INVISIBLE ARMY 40 CHAPTER III TWO PICTURES OF WAR--A GLANCE BACK 67 CHAPTER IV THE JAPANESE KITCHENER 81 CHAPTER V CAMP 108 CHAPTER VI 203-METER HILL 118 CHAPTER VII A SON OF THE SOIL 142 CHAPTER VIII THE BLOODY ANGLE 152 CHAPTER IX A BATTLE IN THE STORM 164 CHAPTER X THE CREMATION OF A GENERAL 183 CHAPTER XI THE GENERAL’S PET 191 CHAPTER XII COURTING DEATH UNDER THE FORTS 198 CHAPTER XIII FROM KITTEN TO TIGER 211 CHAPTER XIV SCIENTIFIC FANATICS 234 CHAPTER XV JAPAN’S GRAND OLD MAN 253 CHAPTER XVI