Port Arthur

English thumb|Map including LÜ-SHUN zh 旅順 (PORT ARTHUR) (Army Map Service AMS, 1956) thumb|A French political cartoon in 1898, China – the cake of Kings and Emperors, showing various imperial powers dividing China. Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory Kiautschou and Port Arthur are written on the cake. Etymology en William Arthur (Royal Navy) British naval officer (1830-1866) in 1860. Proper noun port Arthur en locality carea/Yorke Peninsula s/South Australia. en town and former convict settlement in carea/Tasman s/Tasmania c/Australia. en city mostly in co/Jefferson County s/Texas c/USA. en ucomm town:pref/Grant co/Rusk County s/Wisconsin c/USA. en comm and former city in the city:pref/Thunder Bay p/Ontario p/Canada. en Lüshun a port in China. en March 17, 1888 MANCHURIA. w:The Spectator 3,116 https://archive.org/details/sim_spectator-uk_1888-03-17_61_3116/ 0038-6952 1766325 389 https://archive.org/details/sim_spectator-uk_1888-03-17_61_3116/page/389/ 2 In fact, the evidence of Chinese precautions, the arsenal at Kirin, the fort at Hun-ch’un, the lines near Port Arthur—Lu-shun-k’ou—the attention paid to drill, armament, and telegraphic communication, the very large bodies of troops trained by Europeans as well as the Militia, all show that China, if she does not fear, anticipates a struggle for her Northern lands. en 1901 Great Britain Foreign Office Correspondence on China, 1872-1904 https://books.google.com/books?id=I7YsAAAAYAAJ 4 235993420 73 Subsequently, however, the Russians did proceed beyond Shanhaikwan and captured the towns of Chichou and Hsin Min. I also heard, after my arrival at Lü Shun (Port Arthur) that the Russians had dispatched forces in various directions eastwards, and had sent communications to the local officials bidding them not to be alarmed, as all they had to do was to hand over their munitions of war to the Russians, whereupon the latter would exterminate the Hu* rebels on their behalf. en 1947 w:Theodore H. White; Annalee Jacoby Thunder Out of China https://archive.org/details/thunderoutofchin031761mbp/ London w:Victor Gollancz Ltd 24830932 20921443M 271 https://archive.org/details/thunderoutofchin031761mbp/page/n274/ The bitter heart of the treaty lay in the clauses requiring China to give up her sovereign control of Port Arthur and Dairen. Dairen was made an international free port, with special rights for Russia, and the Russians received the right to establish a naval base at Port Arthur on Chinese soil. en 1952 July the late H. Carew By Special Train in the Far East Railway Magazine 488 Important among these [negotiations] was control of what the Russians had called the Chinese Eastern Railway from Port Arthur and Dalny [Dairen] up to Mukden and Changchun, a distance of some 450 miles. This line had been fought over from end to end, and had been severely damaged. en 1972 Theodore Shabad PORT ARTHUR w:Encyclopedia Britannica 18 https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri18chic/ 0-85229-162-0 77-149817 243587 259 https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri18chic/page/259/ 2 Port Arthur became part of the joint municipality of Port Arthur-Dairen, known in Chinese as Lüshun-Talien, or simply Lü-ta, with its seat at Dairen. The population of Port Arthur in the 1953 census was 126,000; that of Lü-ta (1958 est.) 1,590,000. en May 27, 1973 Mao still embraces Stalin cult Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1973-05-27_14_20/ XIV 20 0016-0318 1786626 Taipei 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1973-05-27_14_20/page/n1/ The Peiping-Moscow friendship and alliance pact was signed in February 1950. Other treaties concluded in the "honeymoon period" had to do with the Manchurian railroad, harbors of Port Arthur and Dairen, petroleum from Sinkiang, and exploitation of rare metals. Derived terms en Port Arthur plum Translations port in China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 阿瑟港 Āsègǎng Norwegian: Nynorsk: nn Port Arthur Russian: ru Порт-Артур Further reading pn Norwegian Nynorsk Etymology city Ultimately from nn en Port Arthur. street Called after the city. Pronunciation nn /puʈ.aʈːʉr/ Austlandet nn /puʂt.aʂːtʉr/ Trøndelag 2008 A. Dalen J. R. Hagland S. Hårstad H. Rydving O. Stemshaug Trøndersk språkhistorie: Språkforhold i ein region nn /puʁt.aʁtʉʁ/ Guttural R dialects Proper noun nn proper noun m 1 nn city c/China (now Lüshun) References