Censorship of letters, 91; of press, 148, 163, 189 _Cesarevitch_, the, 96, 97, 153 Chinese make military roads, 24 Chinese Wall, the, x (Preface), 366 (Appendix II.) Chi-kuan-shan Fort (Fort No. 2), bloody assault on (August 23), repulsed, 183; Japanese sap towards, 202, 210, 211, 213; mining operations, 210, 214, 215, 216; Smirnoff's inspection of the gallery, 217; fires the camouflet counter-mine, 217; Fock's memorandum on the surrender of, 347 _et seq._ Chkheydsey's battery, 113, 119, 120 Civilians attempt to leave Port Arthur, 140 Confidence increases under Smirnoff, 26 Confusion on outbreak of war, 4 Coolies, Chinese, desert, 25 Council of Defence (see Defence) Dalny, confusion at, 45, 49; docks and quays not destroyed, 49, 82; abandonment of the town, 81; retreat of the inhabitants, 82; effect of Stössel's action, 83, 89 Danger Hill, look-out station on, 164 Darkness in Port Arthur, 8 Defence, Council of, protests against surrender, 18; meeting of December 8, 265; Smirnoff's opinion at, 266; Fock's arguments, 268; final meeting (December 29), 303 Defences, general description, x (Preface); neglect of, 18; grave defects in the original scheme of, 313; Kuropatkin's modifications, 373 _Diana_, the, 153 Diplomacy, failure of Russian, 3 Drunkards, flogging of, 11 Drunkenness, 158 Egoroff's battery at Battle of Kinchou, 63 Electric Cliff, 7 Endrjievsky, Lieutenant, Stössel's treatment of, 192 Engineer officers--some did good work, 162; others did not, 164; responsibility of, for loss of life, 164; inactivity and inefficiency of, 194. See also Sappers England, Russian attitude towards (before the war), 226 Erh-lung-shan Fort, bombardment of (September 28), 201; assault of October 30 fails, 223; state of, 230; assault of November 24, 239; anxiety about (December 15), 274; assault of December 18, 285; abandonment of, 288; Fock responsible for, 288; his disclaimer, 289; Smirnoff's message to Kuropatkin, 290; effect of its fall on the garrison, 310 Fleet, Russian, sortie of June 22, 96; disappointing result, 101; sortie of August 10, 152; its failure, 153; state of (after August 10), 262; retrospect of position of, 258-264 Fleet, Japanese, opens fire, 6 Flogging of drunkards, 11 Flug, General, 6