Nogi concentrates two divisions to take Chi-kuan-shan Fort, B Battery, and Eagle's Nest, 183; fails to carry the position, 184; directed to capture Port Arthur at any cost, 236 Nojine, M. (the author): his treatment by Stössel, vii (Preface) _Novik_, the, 4, 59, 153, 262 _Novy Kry_ newspaper objects to publish Stössel's order of March 17, 23; publishes scurrilous allegory, 102; censorship of, 148, 163; publication stopped for a month, 189 Nurses' opinion of the war compared with the Boer War, 194 Officers (Russian) kept in ignorance of the topography of the Fortress, 8; their lack of care for their men, 126 Old Town, defences of, 8 Order of St. George, Third Class, bestowed on Stössel, 187, 188 Orphan Hill, Japanese attack on, repulsed, 157 _Otvajny_, gunboat, as look-out, 26, 42 Oyama, Field-Marshal, joins the besieging army (November), 236 _Pallada_, the, 96, 97; destruction of, 259 Pan-lun-shan Redoubt, Japanese capture, 166; retaken with great loss, 167; shelled on September 20, 195 _Petropalovsk_, the, blown up by mines, 35 Petrusha, Colonel, authorized to arrest anyone, 12; at last Council of Defence, 304; his opinion, 305 Petsivo, Japanese land at, 44 _Pobieda_, the, injured by mines, 35, 96; sinking of, 259 _Poltava_, the, sinking of, 259 Port Arthur, dilatoriness in constructing defences of, 24; cut off, 45; invested, 156; want of mobilization scheme for the Fortress, 194 Press censorship, 148 Proclamation left about by Japanese, 110 Quail Hill, 7, 259 Rafalovitch, Lieutenant, at 203 Metre Hill, 253 Raschevsky, Colonel: attack on his battery (August 23), 175; his opinion of Stössel and Semenoff, 181; his report of the expenditure of men and ammunition (to September 21), 197; his opinion of Fock's trench work, 200; extracts from his diary of the siege, 207, 209-211, 213, 214, 215, 223, 230, 233, 234, 238; his energy, 233; his death, 277 Radetsky, Colonel, at Kinchou, 65 Redoubts Nos. 1 and 2, desperate assaults on, 176, 179; finally captured, 182; strengthened by Japanese, 186 Retirement from Green Hills, 122 _et seq._ Retreat from Kinchou to Port Arthur, 76 _et seq._ _Retvisan_, the, damaged, 5; floated off the shoal, 20; sinking of, 259 Reuss, Colonel: at last meeting of Council of Defence, 304; appointed to conduct capitulation, 332; the terms agreed to, 332 Rewards for the garrison announced, 187; treatment of private soldiers, 297 Russian army: its ignorance of Japan, 13 ---- attitude towards England before the war, 226 ---- fleet driven in on February 25, 17 Rocky ridge, attack on, repulsed, 312; Fock orders its abandonment, 312 Sadikoff, Lieutenant, and his bullock battery, 55 Savitsky, Colonel, at last Council of Defence, 304