ILEA000636794: Chinese Boatmen at Port Arthur

Dalian, China - The Harbour and Railway Depot

Dalian, China - The Harbour and Railway Depot, during Japanese occupation. The settlement was occupied by the British in 1858, returned to the Chinese in the 1880s, and then occupied by Japan in 1895 during the first Sino-Japanese War. With the unconditional surrender of Japan at the end of the Second World War, Dalian, passed to the Soviet Union, who had liberated the city in advance of the end of hostilities and governed the city until 1950, when the city was presented to the Chinese Communist government without any compensation. Date: circa 1920s

South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang, China

South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang (formerly Mukden), China. With the region under Japanese control following victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), Japanese settlers were encouraged through the construction of schools, libraries, hospitals and public utilities. The South Manchuria Railway Company (Mantetsu) - was a company founded in the Empire of Japan in 1906, taken over after the Russo-Japanese War, and operated within China in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. The railway itself ran from Lushun Port (Port Arthur) at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula to Harbin, where it connected to the Chinese Eastern Railway. Date: circa 1920s

Patriotic Shrine - Paiyushan - Port Arthur

Patriotic Shrine - Paiyushan - Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian, Liaoning province, also called Lushun City or Lushun Port, formerly known as both Port Arthur and Ryojun). During the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905), the Russians surrendered Port Arthur to the Japanese after nearly a year's siege: the Japanese expended 58,000 killed or wounded to obtain the town. This is a Japanese memorial to the victory. Date: circa 1910

Russo-Japanese War - Captured Wagons, Office and Train

Russo-Japanese War - Captured Russian baggage wagons, The Head Office of the Military Railways at Dairen (now Dalian, formerly Dalny) and a Railway Train at Liaoyang Station in the Liaoning province of China. Russian Admiral Eugene Alexeyeff was blamed for splitting precious resources shipped 5,000 miles across the single tracked Trans-Siberian Railway and Manchurian Railway between Dalny and Port Arthur (pictured here). The inset photographs are creatively framed as the windows of a railway carriage! Date: circa 1910s

Port Arthur - The Pushkin School

Port Arthur - The Pushkin School during the period of Russian occupation of the city. Port Arthur is now under Chinese control and is known as Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian, Liaoning province, also called Lushun City or Lushun Port, formerly known as Ryojun). Lushunkou has an excellent natural harbour, the possession and control of which became a 'casus belli' (justification for the act of war) during the Russo-Japanese War (19041905). Japanese and then Soviet administration would continue until 1953. Date: circa 1910s

China - Dalian City

Dalian, China. The settlement was occupied by the British in 1858, returned to the Chinese in the 1880s, and then occupied by Japan in 1895 during the first Sino-Japanese War. With the unconditional surrender of Japan at the end of the Second World War, Dalian, passed to the Soviet Union, who had liberated the city in advance of the end of hostilities and governed the city until 1950, when the city was presented to the Chinese Communist government without any compensation. Date: circa 1910

Port Arthur - Lushunkou - China

A panoramic view of Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian, Liaoning province, also called Lushun City or Lushun Port, formerly known as both Port Arthur and Ryojun). During the Russo-Japanese war, the Russians surrendered Port Arthur to the Japanese after nearly a year's siege: the Japanese expended 58,000 killed or wounded to obtain the town. As can be seen here, Lushunkou boasts an excellent natural harbour, the possession and control of which became a 'casus belli' (justification for the act of war) during the Russo-Japanese War (19041905). Date: circa 1909

Martyrs Monument, Hakugyokuzan Ryojun, Port Arthur, Memorial

Martyrs Monument, Hakugyokuzan Ryojun, Port Arthur, Memorial. ort Arthur is now under Chinese control and is known as Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian, Liaoning province, also called Lushun City or Lushun Port, formerly known as Ryojun). Lushunkou has an excellent natural harbour, the possession and control of which became a 'casus belli' (justification for the act of war) during the Russo-Japanese War (19041905). Japanese and then Soviet administration would continue until 1953. Date: 1909

A Gateway in Outer Manchuria - Russo-Japanese War period

A Gateway in Outer Manchuria - Russo-Japanese War period - likely to still have been under Russian control at this stage (only fell under Japanese influence after the 1917 Revolution). Date: 1905

Red Cross Tents at Mukden - Russo-Japanese War

Red Cross Tents at Mukden - the last major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought from 20th February to 10th March 1905 between Japan and Russia near Mukden in Manchuria. The city is now called Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province in China. Date: 1905

Chinese Boatmen at Port Arthur

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