Port arthur was the sight of a terrible massacre in the sino japanese war that just ended. The high end possible number is 20 thousand, but there are other people who take that number much higher than that. Port arthur became a ghastly inferno until one's dying day. I saw corpses and three or four men strewing the streets in hundreds, perhaps thousands, for we could not count them all. But i'm going to let history ans argue that sort of stuff. We'll have china pay you more money than the original deal called for, but you don't get to have that important strategic peninsula that has that port named port arthur on it