Crossword-Solution: GENSAN 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The meaning of this move was not revealed until weeks later, when it became known that the transport ships from Dalny and Gensan, which were supposed to have returned to Japan, were really on their way to San Francisco and Seattle with the second detachment of the invading army.

The two honourable gentlemen who have just visited me--the Commandant of Gensan and our Japanese consul stationed here--inform me that rumours have reached their ears of certain suspicious occurrences at Iwon which seem to point to the possibility that the Russian Government may be contemplating the dispatch of a large body of troops to Vladivostock by rail, their embarkation there for Iwon, at which spot they may land, march across Korea, and take our troops at Port Arthur in the rear.

Finally, the matter ended by each of them having his own way--that is to say, Yagi decided to leave for Gensan forthwith, unescorted, taking such trifling risk as there might be--which, they both agreed, amounted practically to none at all-- while Takebe determined to study the safety of his command by remaining where he was and awaiting developments.

All I knew was that I was some fifty miles, or thereabout, to the southward and eastward of Iwon; but I might as well have been five hundred miles from the place, for all the means I had of returning to it, or even of making a shot at Gensan.

From these conversations I gathered that after the squadron and the _Kinshiu_ parted company off Gensan, while we in the transport headed for Iwon, the squadron proceeded toward Vladivostock, being much delayed by a dense fog, through which it steamed at half-speed, each ship towing a fog buoy as a guide to the ship immediately following, though, even with this assistance, keeping touch was only accomplished with extreme difficulty.