THE COST OF TAKING PORT ARTHUR 276 CHAPTER XVII A CONTEMPORARY EPIC 289 CHAPTER XVIII THE NEW SIEGE WARFARE 316 EPILOGUE THE DOWNFALL 339 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS OPPOSITE PAGE 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