Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-19
STOESSEL TO CAR
Russian Conomandant Of Port
 Arthur Undaunted Still.
FLEET SAILS TOMEET ROJESTvENSKY
"We Threw Back Japanese at Point of BRyOnet Many Tfmea." Says the Report, "But Enemy Have
 Gained Crest or Vfso1<aH.'

0AAmSO SEG9E OI SASOAGAs'' LONDON, Dec. 19.--Advices from St. Petersburg give General Stoessel's latest report to the emperor. He says:
 ''I beg to inform your majesty that after an increased bombardment the Japanese, In spite of great losses, have effected by their perseverance pas sage between two forts on the north eastern front of Port Arthur.
 "On Nov. 23 the Japanese suddenly hurled themselves against several works on this front and seized a DOT ton of the trenches, but they were thrown back by the reserves after a fierce bayonet struggle They return ed to the assault at midnight and again occupied part of the trenches, but were annihiIated by our bayonets. At 2 o'clock in the morning all was over, and your majesty's heroic troops were able to rest and start repairing the damage caused by tho bombard- n1ent % fat
 From the 2oth to the 24th the Japa- nese lost more than 2,oo0 men. All our troops behaved as heroes. The following especially distinguished them selves Generals Kondratenko, Eikitin and Gorbatowsky and Lieutenant Colo mel Naoumenko.
 P "On the 28th the Japanese began to lombard and attack fiercely the forts on the northeastern front and the ad- vanced trenches. The trenches repeat edly changed bends. Nevertheless, on the night of 26th we threw back the Japanese at the point Of the bayonet The enemy succeeded Nin blowing up the parapet of one of the forts and be- gan building parallels there. At an- other fort on the same night they laid sacks along the rampant, but our artil- lery dispersed them. Toward 10 o'clock in the evening the Japanese attacked battery on our left flank in considera ble strength and at first obtained pos session of a portion of the works, but our heroes brought bayonets into use, and the Japanese retired, leaving a heap of their slain. The Japanese re- opened q violent fire against the inte-. Yior of the fortress on the morning of Nov. 2T.
 "The help which God sent us on the birthday of our mother, the cgarina, gave us further victory.
 Since Nov. 2T the Japanese have been carrying on violent Lombard nent and making i1casaant aBsaults in considerable force against viSokai (rwo Hundred and Three Meter) hill.
 'The twelve days assault, which commenced on Nov. 70, was definitely rspulsed on Dec 12. am happy Co say that your majegty'g heroic troops alone could have been capable of do ing this. There has never been such I a fierce assault.
 'tAt ' o'clock in the morning the Japanese, having concentrated all their forces, began an assault of visokai (Two Hundred and Three Meter) hill, bombardink it simultaneously with eleven inch and sixteen inch shells. A fierce light ragged all day. We repeiled three assaults.
 Toward evening the Japanese sue cesded in obtaining possession of the crest of the hill and immediately got two machine gums into position there on.
 Among the wounded arc General Tssrpinsky and Lisutenant Colonel BoutonsSOR of the frontier guards. Colonel Irrmann performed prodigieS I of valor.
 "since the capture of visOkai hill our ships In the harbor have been St1f- l fering from eleven inch Japanese shells.
 General Taerpinsky has succambed Co his wounds
 ''The spirits of the troops are excel- lent"
 ofaciaI reports state ths the Rus sians at Port Arthur have abandoned the battIeships Peresviet, Poltava, Po- 1 bieda and Retvixan and the cruisers Pallada and Bayan. ~f~ l A report at Tokyo says that ,Japa- nese fleet of forty vessels has passed 1 the PeScadores islands, south of For mosa. going south. "a'r It.is presumed that this Japanese ar- mada is going to meet the Russian Bal tie fleet.
 l A CheRu dispatch says that Com mander MiZZeneoff, executive oGicer Of the battleship Poltava up to the time the vessel was disarmed and who, as 1 @lr@a0y TObly nGaGSu the party oL S&V- 1 en Russians who left Port Arthur in l a saiIboat on Dec. 15 and after ex- 1 tre1ne suffering while crossing in a driving snowstorm arrived here, bear 1 ing dispatches, when interviewed said:
 Since the Japanese began their at- l tack on High hill which they call Two Hundred and Three Meter hill, the 1 fighting has been continuous. The steep and sandy slopes of the hill were streaked and dotted with snow when the Japanese began the battle which was destined to furnish so many deeds of theroism that they became common place. There was so much slaughter that even Port Arthur's war hardened
 veterans shuddered at the sight. 1 "Japanese were compelled to chamber up the stepes of the hill in many cases without firing in the face of one l of the most murderous deluges ever
 poured from rifles and machine guns.
 I was there, and it seemed to me that 1 flesh and blood would be unable to 1 stand our fire for a minute.
 'The enemy went down in squads