THREE MONTHS WITH THE BESIEGERS A DIURNAL OF OCCURRENTS BY FREDERIC VILLIERS AUTHOR OF PICTURES OF MANY WARS' WITH 35 ILLUSTRATIONS, 2 FACSIMILES AND A MAP LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 1905 All rights reserved ILLUSTRATIONS GENERAL BARON NOGI AND HIS STAFF WELCOME THE WAR CORRESPONDENTS AT LUNCHEON A BATCH OF SPIES LED TO PUNISHMENT THROUGH THE PORT ARTHUR: THREE MONTHS WITH THE BESIEGERS A DIURNAL OF OCCURRENTS Ir was a curious remnant of the contingent of the Fourth Estate that had for so many months worried the civil and military authorities in Tokio, which was now dumped down with its baggage on the quay of Dalny, this sweltering forenoon of August 4, 1904. We were ten altogether. Young men of means out for the fun of the thing-some looking for means and out for any newspaper that might want an odd war correspondent; two expert photographers, and the legitimate representatives of the Telegraph,' 'Daily Mail,' The Associated Press, The Illustrated London News,' and other journals, including the correspondent of the 'San Francisco Chronicle,' Richard Barry, a young Irish-American, who had apparently left his office in such a hurry to catch his boat that he had brought with him nothing but a change of linen and the clothes he stood up in. He was minus everything necessary to B |