Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-19

| into the helpless ranks OF the enemy.
In the meantime, Japanese troops in the
| rear of the companies that had raised
the white flag, saw what their comrades
| had done ard expressed their diSap-
prevail of the surrender by firing into
their rear. AS result of this fire
from friend and foe six hundred men
were annihilated The dead fell among
the decomoposing bodies of previous
assaults.
| For days afterwards the wounded
men in this area raised huttering hand
kerchiefs in their hands in pleas for
help. but the Russians were afraid to
venture out to give succor. Within a
week, the last arm had made it's last
unregarded prayer for help, and the
shambles WAS quiet but CHASTITY field
of horror. Among the heaps of dead
the prince saw two soldiers, one a Rus
sian and the other a Japanese. lying
locked in a death embrace. The teeth
of the Japanese We're sunk in the ltus~
slams throat, while the Russian had
| forced two of his fingers into the eye
sockets of his antagonist.
| The prince cited this as merely an IN
cident denoting the ferocity of the con-
| fiict at Port Arthur. The prince VIII
will leave here today to rejoin General
Kuropatkin.
Prince Radzivil got into Port Arthur
a fortnight ago, carrying dispatches
/, from General Kuropatkin to Lieutenant
General Stoessel.
Tho nrince and the officers accom-
panying him brought out dispatches
and mail matter from FORT Arthur
Weighing eighty pounds.
The prince said: "The stories in cir
culation concerning the shortage of
ammunition and provisions at Port Ar
thur are not true. There is an abund-
ance of ammunition for both large and
small arms and plenty of preserved
food The use of Chinese shells was
merely a saving measure
II left Lieutenant General Stoessel
in the best of spirits. He is encour-
aged by the heroic example set by the
wounded men. of whom five thousand
out of the original eight thousand in
hospitals have returned to the front.
There has been no fighting since
September l, with the exception of ar
tillery and outpost exchanges.
THE Japanese shells have done great
damage to the hospital and other build
ings in Port Arthur, but the loss of
life from these bombardments has been
very slight.
Mrs. Stoessel. wife of the general
is at the head of the Red Cross work
in Port Arthur She is in constant at
tendance at the hospitals and cares
tenderly for wounded men. In addi-
ton to this exhausting work, she finds
time to give succor to orphans and
widows and to superintend the making
of bandages.
"The garrison is making a strong and
devoted martyral spirit and has great
confidence in Lieutenant General Stoes-
sci, who is cheered by the men when
he rides along the lines.
THE newspaper Novikari has beer
suppressed for one month for having
published matter thought to be detri
mental to Russian interests.
"Individual acts of heroism during
the fighting have been numerous, and
| was for a long time the absorbing topic
of conversation. Petroff became sur
rounded by some Japanese soldiers
whom he fought successfully till his
sword broke. He then used his fists
on the Japanese, but their bayonets
quickly put an end to his existence
Before he broke his sword, Petriff
wounded eight Japanese but he was
wounded all over the body.
cone company of Russian troops
were occupying perilous outpost and
when they found their position to be