EDITORIAL
had learned that the Jap-
anese might enter the
town at any time, and
the distressing scenes
which {followed are al-
most too sad for con-
Says No-
templation.
jine :—
Then began an awful and
indescribable panic, for the
seeds sown by imagination
on the soil of fear are pro-
lificc. A massacre by the
Japanese or Hunhuses was
expected. Men, women,
and children wandered help-
lessly and aimlessly about
the town, not knowing what
to do. Many rushed to
the station, only to be told
that the railway would
not take them. There werc
practically no horses in the
place.
By midnight the major-
ity of the residents had col-
lected on the Upravlensk
Square where the mayor,
having told them of the
telegram which he had re-
ceived from Stossel, pro-
posed that they should abandon the town; he
said that he would not be responsible for any
that remained. Then the unfortunate inhabi-
tants leaving all their property to its fate,
set out along the shore front toward Shao-
pingtao. Some were able to hire rickshaws,
but the majority went on foot. Those who
happened to see the unfortunate women, half
dressed, and barefooted, with crying children
in their arms, will never forget the awful pic-
ture; and it might have all been avoided if
General Stossel had listened to the constant
representations made by the mayor with re-
gard to a timely departure.—Nojine, Ibid.,
pp. 81, 82.
Copyright,
Underwood, N. Y,
And these poor men, women, and chil-
dren now set out for Arthur—for Arthur
which was already overcrowded and un-
der-provisioned. = After a march of
twenty-four hours, hungry and weary,
and having lost all of their earthly pos-
sessions, they began to straggle into the
A View of the City of Dalny
fortress—to add a fresh burden to its
already scanty resources.
The End of Dalny the Doomed
And Dalny the doomed fell into the
hands of the Japanese with scarce an
effort having been made to destroy it.
The breakwaters, docks, cranes, floating
material, railways, and warehouses burst-
ing with stores and provisions of all
sorts all passed into the hands of Rus-
sia’s enemy. And when the war was
over the Japanese confessed that the
Russians had assisted them enormously
by thus letting fall into their hands these
magnificent docks and breakwaters where
they could land the eleven-inch siege
guns with which to bombard Port Ar-
thur.
The Deathless Glory of Nanshan
The first great fight around Port Ar-