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Dairen, China, view of travelers waiting room Vintage early 1900s Postcard UNP:
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The view of great waiting-room for travellers on the Dairen 誇一洋東比無大宏

• 將可許部合司塞签取終日一月六年十和昭。

Dairen is a coastal city and seaport on the southern tip of the Liaodong peninsula of Manchuria in China. Borders Dairen Bay (Ta-Lien Bay). Also spelled Ta-Lien, Dalian or Dàlián. To the east is the Yellow Sea and beyond Korea. To the west and south is the Bohai Sea. Between September 8, 1931–September 2, 1945 part of the Empire of Manchukuo. Today located in Liaoning Province in People's Republic of China (PRC).

Wartime History

After the Russo-Japanese war, the Treaty of Portsmouth gave Japan Port Arthur. The Japanese established the Kwantung Leased Territory or Guandongzhou, which was roughly the southern half (Jinzhou District and south) of the present-day Dalian. In 1932, became part of the Empire of Manchukuo. In 1937, Dalian was enlarged and modernized by the Japanese and became two cities: northern Dairen (Dalian) and the southern Ryojun (Port Arthur or Lüshun).

American missions against Dairen

September 8, 1944 (20th AF) 15 B-29s bomb Dairen, Sinsiang, and targets of opportunity.

As part of the Yalta Conference, the Allies decided that the commercial port of Dairen shall be internationalized, with the preeminent interests of the Soviet Union in the port being safeguarded with the lease of Port Arthur for use as a Soviet naval base.

Postwar

Dairen survived the war relatively undamaged. After the surrender of Japan in August 1945, the Soviet Union administered Dairen until 1950, when it was turned over to China. During this period the Soviets and Chinese Communists cooperated in the further development of the city. The seaport was rented and used by the Soviet Union, and the last of their troops departed by 1955.