Dalny

a city and free port of Manchuria, situated on the Liao-tung Peninsula, and on Ta-lien-wan bay in the Yellow Sea, 25 miles N. of Port Arthur. Dalny is one of the eastern termini of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and was part of the leased conce ion of 1898 from China to Ru ia, after the latter with Germany and France, had coerced Japan to accept other territory than the peninsula which they had captured during the Chinese War of 1894-95. The city was established expre ly for a commercial seaport by an edict of the Czar of Ru ia, and was tbrown open to the commerce of all nations, Dec. 1, 1901. It was divided into administrative, wholesale, retail, and residential sections, and a fine town with spacious streets, handsome buildings, and all modern inprovements soon sprang up. The harbor, one of tbe best and deepest on the Pacific, ice-free all the year round, was provided with breakwaters, great stone piers, and extensive docks, including two dry docks. It was furnished with railroads, elevators, warehouses, gas and electric lighting, ete, After the brilliant storming end eapture of WNin-chau, May 26, 1904 in the Ru o-Japanese War, the Japanese occupied Dalny, renamed it Tairen, and opened it to the world’s trade.