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Port Arthur (LUSHWANKAU or LUSHUNKU)

LUSHWANKAU, or LUSHUNKU, a former naval station of China, with a fine narrow-mouthed harbor at the end and on the E. side of the peninsula jutting S. W. from Manchuria, opposite Shifu, strongly fortified; formerly the headquarters of the N. fleet of China. It was taken by the Japanese in 1894, and was restored to China by coercion of European powers. On Dec. 19, 1897, a Russian fleet occupied Port Arthur with China's consent. On Jan. 28, 1898, the city was ceded to Russia.

It was captured by the Japanese, January, 1905, after nearly a year's siege.