Show tl 1 5 PORT ARTHUR AND GIBRALTAR T AR 1 j m n nn n un n nn 1 n n nn n n n In nn nn n i I III I I I I The fame rame of ot Gibraltar r and IU tour four year siege If has hu been spread wherever the English En tongue hns hili been able to It mid In referring to h I th mYM turns turn almost Instinctively I to the lh remarkable struggle begun In 1779 the of ot the great greut stronghold nt rt southern end of ot tile the Spanish hU I remittance made there therl by b tIe the stout hearted soldier ard d sailors mutt 11 8 stand out as ItI a 1 ie re achievement or or human cour courage age Me and endurance when thai ilia bl Is II studied In rom com comparison parison with the one now going on at al Port Jort Arthur It must be admitted tl older event suffers One Oil thinUs nothing of ot glancing at III an Ic of oC an assault ur a It repulse at orl In which thousand were wera lull lost Yit more are arc killed d and Inti wounded In III tingle hlll buttles of nr tho Iho Port Arthur Arlhur III than Ihan In the years an fir f the struggle at The fht and dis displayed played In III the Port Arthur Arlhur Investment far and exceed that recorded fir f Gibraltar and the weapons and delt used by the English their Spanish und seam olum dum I and Inadequate compared with the ter terrible enginery tar for human d d on each side In the fn fAI lItem n 18 IS NOT lOT I It goes almost almot without saying thit under the sustained and fierce i lre II to which the Japanese have Port Arthur as all It was wa In 1779 would h be n rendered untenable hi In III Ina a week welk und aud even enn today tocla It II Is II loui ul u It uIt It II hold out more than a row months o h The lh siege Iel of ot that Is lIoa II I I the subject Is to IK I th Ihl great onn OIlA tram from Sept 12 I 17 liI to Kb 3 a 1793 a of or three jar jarI II 1 I m month and ana I i days elaI general U commanding the th hAd Imd hAda a military force of ami men In iiI the entire th fan lon lost loat but hul m killed un disabled by rul tho total of or the Ih BIU 1111 In the siege were but bUI Ing I tie the killed and arut us 1111 given 1111 KM wh died trum Ul dl IlM and 43 dl The losses II nn the side lid of or the tone forces V M i heavier nu 1111 doubt but while hll givin gh n In the chief P work ork on th that of ot Jan they 1111 must mut have hl ben i j compared Ith the In th t hll pi out I IIII III or were I modern n Aside from the in I Isea In sea n proper there 1 Ilpo losses on I h ec el that from time to time nere 11 engaged In III the of 0 Cl mil millar tar lar but th e did dil nut nol teach serious pro proportion pr I portion I The rhe fact Is II the lh great Kr lI of tar lar was wa more norf conspicuous for tor th li It I cl d bv b the I In ers n of ot Ih attacking forces forlI tor I on a great greot scale I I A m FI N iO I Too hi nh tribute cannot be paid to th hi ability shown hon by b General n 1 nna A III I the valor of ot the Ibl stubborn orn At Atthe the iu in time the Spanish and can led on the with nothing ilk I the Ih vigor that has hll been IMn displayed in 11 later stages For or Instance In III the Ih t 1 c cords I of ot the bombardment li HIN Is shoun t from Sept U 1 1 to 10 April A l ml I the Ihl attacking army did no cannonading Later on the tM bombardment was lill at Rl I extremely active as III when from April IZ to 10 May Mn 81 In III the year yar 1781 the Ih be II threw thre shot ahot and sheila h n the stronghold For months however when Ihn the th nir was VIS supposed to be nt lit Its height the VHS II subject to n II fire of ot but N Nor 0 or 10 30 shells a day dayNor Nor was II there the suffering for rOl of food tood nt Itt that might Imp been expected from so 0 long a siege Tin TIll Jan were much more mort SUP e in ill getting fr Ii food t supplies in than the Hu IAn have been nt at Port Arthur Arlhur frequently managed tn to get CAroe if f supplies from A 1111 or or tit other points 1 In the Ih Med Twice Indeed formidable fleets Gibraltar while hIls was 1 IU In 11 Home after atler sg 11 began bel on h Admiral Hodney nod nil reached the rock rork with 11 II ships of ot the th lire brought In vast quantities quant tiel of ot IIII In n April 1781 1 about a II ear 1 alter visit Ad AI Durby ith tho grand I fleet lIeI i l Ito o at al Gibraltar and Ind brought In III On one occasion i ia I II a I from was driven to 10 lie j I tock lock with GOOI of ot which I Ih |