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Port Arthur

noun

A major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda. Synonym: Lushun.

A battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese.

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... priests and rebuild the church and houses the mob had destroyed. China appealed to Russia who had promised to protect her against all invaders. Instead of coming to her aid, however, Russia demanded a similar cession of Port Arthur, Talienwan and the surrounding territory which she had refused to allow Japan to retain two years before. Not to be outdone by the others, France demanded and received a similar strip of territory at Kuang-chou-wan; and England found that Wei-hai-wei would be indispensable as a kennel from which ...

— Court Life in China • Isaac Taylor Headland

... Germany evidently counted, above all, on the weakness of the Russian Army. There was nothing, however, to justify such an estimate of the armed forces of Russia. Certainly Russia had been beaten in the Japanese war, but in that war the decision was reached on the sea, and after the fall of Port Arthur the land war had no object. The Germans have probably convinced themselves already how superficial was such an estimate of the forces of Russia, but in reality their mistake was due to an entirely superficial ...

— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various

Words linked to "Port Arthur" : Red China, People's Republic of China, pitched battle, urban center, PRC, port, Cathay, china, Luda, Manchuria, mainland China, Communist China, city, metropolis, Luta