Japanese Russian Peace Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A., 1905
Summary
Postcard shows the building at the Portsmouth Navy Yard where the peace talks were held, the Hotel Wentworth, and flags of Japan and Russia, all superimposed on an American flag.
Copyrighted by W. L. Julian, 1905.
Postcard sent by newspaper correspondent Edmund Noble to his wife, Lydia. Text reads: Conference resumed today, Aug. 14, 1905. Edmund.
The Siege and Battle of Port Arthur marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War. Porth Artur was the deep-water port and Russian naval base at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria. Port Arthur was widely regarded as one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world at the time. It was the longest and most violent land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. Russian land forces in the course of the siege suffered 31,000 casualties, of whom 15,000 were killed, wounded, and missing.
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