Bisbee daily review., 1904-12-25

tai chiefs of our army to be read by privates. Here is one of the para graphs of the letter: '>Of every one of you the emperor and your country ex. poets the accomplishment of the i'm possible" Time and again. and oft en in the presence of foreign visitors. the Nippon soldiers have succeeded in accomplishing feats which seemed clear and away beyond human possi- billy even in the imagination of the spectators. and the doing of an impos- sible ;hins by our men, and so many many times over, too. seems to hare carried conviction into the minds Of our foreign friends.
 When OUT Russian friencs advertis- cd-in no modest tone to be sure-the impregnability of Port Arthur. there were some good people in Tokio who thought the Russians were dreaming Events of the following days seems 70 have given them a somewhat rude awakening It it true. then. that the Russians knew a few things of what their engineers could do in heighten- ling the strength of the heaven-built fortress. Fancy to yourself a slant Of over seventy degrees riding away into the skies for many hundred met CTS. surrounded by a deap moat. Inn agine. also. boomproof trenches ccv- cred with steel plates ccowning it's crest. surrounding the permanent fort in the center atop of the hill. built Of stone and cement, in which arc mount co heavy guns. Imagine, once agaiD that the foct of this fort. just above the moar is mined. is surrounded with wire entanglements, every iron line of which is charged electric dursenas strong enough 10 fell thousands cf men at a touch. and fancy that two cr thee Of scch forts are placed to ev- cry 1000 meters Of the perimeter of Port Arthur. Behind such fortifica- tions a few determined women. if they Cnly knew how to handle the guns. would be able 10 entertain an army Cf 100000 men of unprecedented courage and thorough training. Said our com manding officer 10 ore of the native correspondents: Tn a siege work like this. so far as the defenCer is con cerned. the forts are everything. With them. the forts are thcii courage: their endurance is the forts Behind them they can well afford to turn the most heroic of human attacks into a sad joke"
 This was the foundation upon which Russia built her dream of a Far East ern empire. Fire years of the bes- engineering efforts Of Russia had been cry stalized in ,his strcrghold With lavish hands Russian rubles were burineI in the soil. Confident in ;t5 strength. and no without reason. the Russians have sung. with touch of isrcarity :n their voices. O: the impreg- inability 0f Port Arthur
 We must have Port Arthur-;hat much was decided from the beginning but where were We to get it? The ansvtr to the first question depended upon two thirgs-first if General KurO patiir were to succeed in breaking through our army facing him and create a possibility of his coming to th- rescue of Port Arthur: second : the coming Of a second Pacific squad ron of Russia from the European wat CTS A. Telissu. and later at the Sha rlvcr. General kuropatkin had , tried hard to come to the rescue oi ] his Port Arthur friends. As long as the admiral Baltic squadron of Russia was eEriching the art of the carica turist On its famous voyage around the world there seemed to be no spec ial need for the Nippon government tC ge7 into fever of haste and naryoue excitement over the reduction of Por i Arthur. So the commanders of the besieging forces hit upon a comprO
 mise. The work of reduction progress ed. but with the least expenditure oi men. To General NOgi the men un der him are dearer than his own blood To be sure there were occasions wheI sacrifices could not be avoided. T'heT ! the men died without hesitation. al