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Title: At the Fall of Port Arthur
Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

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Language: English

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Soldiers of Fortune Series

AT THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR

Or

A Young American in the Japanese Navy

by

EDWARD STRATEMEYER

Author of "Under the Mikado's Flag," "On to Pekin," "Two Young
Lumbermen," "Old Glory Series," "Colonial Series,"
"Pan-American Series," etc.

Illustrated by A. B. Shute

[Illustration: "It is coming this way!" yelled Larry.----_Page 84._]

[Illustration: Printer's logo]

Boston:
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
1930

Copyright, 1905, by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company

All rights reserved

AT THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR

Printed in U.S.A.

PREFACE

"AT THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR" is a complete tale in itself, but forms the
third volume in a line issued under the general title of "Soldiers of
Fortune Series."

The story relates primarily the adventures of Larry Russell and his
old-time sea chum, Luke Striker, already well known to the readers of my
"Old Glory Series." Larry and Luke are aboard of their old ship, the
_Columbia_, bound from Manila to Nagasaki, with a cargo designed