. Peking and the overland route. hore offer irresistible inducements to holiday makerswhile the bracing sea air affords convalescents the finestchance of recuperating health, PROGRAMME FOR TWO DAYS. 1st day. Morning. Arrive by first train. Drive round New Town. Government Offices, limch at the Monument Hill. The War Museum and the Old day. Morning. Tung-chi-kuan-shan. North Fort,Bodai, Er-lung-shan, at 203 Metre Hill. LeaAC by the evening train. PLACES OF INTEREST. Monament Hill rises close to the railway station, andfrom
. Peking and the overland route. hore offer irresistible inducements to holiday makerswhile the bracing sea air affords convalescents the finestchance of recuperating health, PROGRAMME FOR TWO DAYS. 1st day. Morning. Arrive by first train. Drive round New Town. Government Offices, limch at the Monument Hill. The War Museum and the Old day. Morning. Tung-chi-kuan-shan. North Fort,Bodai, Er-lung-shan, at 203 Metre Hill. LeaAC by the evening train. PLACES OF INTEREST. Monament Hill rises close to the railway station, andfrom the summit, which is 442 feet above sea-level, can beobtained a fine panoramic view of the forts and the top of the Hill there is a eharnel shrine containingthe cremated remains of Japanese soldiers whogave up their lives around the fortress town. This shrhiewas dedicated on March 30th 1908. Adjoining thisstands the Grand Memorial Tower, built under the jointauspices of General Nogi and Admiral Togo, with the 139. ik-i^ Monument Hill, Port Arthur voluntary sulisci-iptiou of yt-n. From the Iouiulu-tion to the top of the tower is 218 iect (the shell-lornicdtop itself beiiitr 29 feet). A windinff iron staircase of 243steps ascends the tower to a plutforni on the top. fromwhich amaffnificent viewis obtained o\er the surroundinifsea and country. The War Museum. Open 8 —5 ] every dayexcept Mondays and National Holidays. Entrance fee10 sen ; children, 5 sen. The War Museum is situated to the cast of the OldTown ; it contains a splendid collection of nu-nu-ntoes ofthe War. In the a|)])roach to the Museum will he seenmodels of trenches, trous-de-loup. wire-entan<^lements,machine j,nms. heavy artillery, &c. Amonj; them is amuzzle-loadiu}, <(un left by the Russians, said to have beenmantifactured by the order of Xapoleon I, and is such arare specimen that one camiot be found even in FrenchMuseums. It is presumed that the <,nm was formerly inChina
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