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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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... had been caught running arms into Cuba. It seemed he had always been running something somewhere that it ought not to have been run. And he had never outgrown it. One letter, on crinkly tissue paper, showed that as late as the Japanese-Russian War he had been caught running coal into Port Arthur and been taken to the prize court at Sasebo, where his steamer was confiscated and he remained a prisoner until the ...

— The Turtles of Tasman • Jack London

... terminus of the main line is Vladivostock; a branch line across Manchuria reaches Port Arthur and Dalny, or Tairen, as it is now called. The continuous railway route from St. Petersburg to Port Arthur is five thousand six hundred and twenty miles, four thousand five hundred miles of which is in Siberia. The first rails used, proving too light for the tremendous traffic, ...

— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson

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