Vivid Lecture on Port Arthur

Last night in the Living Room of the Union, Mr. Edwin Emerson, '91, the successful American war correspondent, who was the only person to interview General Stoesse during the siege of Port Arthur, described to an unusually large and interested audience the horrors and humors of the late Russo-Japanese war.

Taking as his special title, "Running the Port Arthur Blockade" Mr. Emerson, with the help of excellent stereopticon views, told of his passage from Chee-foo to Port Arthur in a small, frail bark, of his reception by General Stoessel, of his expulsion from Port Arthur, and of his subsequent experiences on the Japanese side.

Owing to Viceroy Alexeof's decree that no foreign newspaper correspondents should be allowed within the city limits, Mr. Emerson, although obtaining numerous photographs of siege operations, was finally expelled from Port Arthur; and after some time on a Chinese junk, was eventually captured by the Japanese blockading fleet. It was from the Japanese ranks that he obtained his vivid photographs of the bloody assault on "203-Metre Hill." On his refusal, however, to disclose to General Nogi his knowledge of the Russian fortifications, the lecturer was imprisoned for some time at the Japanese naval base at Sasebo, where he was eventually paroled.