TALIENWAN  , an open

bay or roadstead on the east side of the Liaotung peninsula, Manchuria . It was leased to Russia by China in 1898 with the naval fortress of Port Arthur, from which it is distant 40 m., the lease being transferred to Japan in 1905 . The Russian town of Dalny (now Tairen) was built upon the west side of the bay, known as Port Victoria . Being ice-free all the year round, it has an advantage over Niuchwang, which is frozen up for four months in the year . Niuchwang, however, lies much nearer to the great producing and consuming districts of Manchuria . Talienwan is in railway connexion with Niuchwang and Peking and via the Siberian railway with Europe . It was the rendezvous of the British fleet during the Anglo-China war of 186o, whence the names Port Arthur and Port Victoria .