Dairen
or DALNY, a port on the peninsula of Liao-tung, Manchuria, about 19 miles N. of Port Arthur. The large harbor is ice-free and affords anchorage for ocean-going vessels. Considerable trade passes through it between Russia, Japan, and China, and the trade continually increases. The Japanese occupied it in 1904 and it was included in the lease to Japan of the Liao-tung peninsula in 1904 (extended in 1915 to 99 years) becoming in 1906 a free port. The port serves as the eastern terminus to the Siberian Railway, and is connected by rail with Mukden, Harbin, and the East China railway system. Dalny is the customs port for all leased territory, and the seat of the Japanese governor-general and administration. Imports (1918), 83,521,131 haikwan taels (tael=about $1.00); exports, 91,301,399 yen. During 1920 it figured in the Japanese operations against Russia. Pop. about 55,000.