The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-24
fications on Kikwan mountain, Rihlung
mountain and the intermediate forts.
Two Attacks Repelled.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 21.-Lieut Gen.
Stoessel, commanding the Russian mill
tary forces at Port Arthur, reports by
telegraph that on the night of Septenl-
Der 16 the garrison repealed two at
tacks on the redoubt protecting the Wa
terworks.
The text of Gen. Stoessel's dispatch is
as follows:
Port Arthur, Sept. 16-The enemy
continues daily to lombard the forts
and batteries inside the fortress, but
still without showing any great activity.
The wounded are recovering and eager
ly resume their places in the ranks.
They are heroes. The troops are in ex-
cellent spirits. At about three this
morning september ICY at least one
Japanese battalion attacked the redoubt
protecting the waterworks. The gar
| rison of the redoubt repulsed the at
tack. but the enemy received re-
endorsements and renewed the attack
after half an hour. The garrison again
repulsed them with rifles and machine
guns, supported by artillery. The Jap
anese sustained great losses and did
not again attempt to take the Often
sive."
Belligerents Are Merciless.
Chefoo, Sept 19.-According to Prince
Radzivil, Of the Russian army, who
reached here from Port Arthur bearing
dispatches from Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel, COM
mander-in-chief of the forces of the Rus
sian stronghold, to Gen. Kuropatkin, the
temper of the belligerents at Port Arthur
has reached an absolutely merciless
stage Prince Radzivil served with the
British in the Boer war and he says that
until he became aware of the state Of
affairs at Port Arthur he had no idea
that war could be so horrible. 1t was set
forth in these dispatches some weeks
ago that serious suspicious were enter
tanned by both belligerents that the
other was misusing the Red Cross flag.
These suspicious have been increased by
the commission of various acts by the
soldiers of both armies, until now even
flags of truce or surrender are not re-
spected by either side.
Expect No Quarter.
Prince Radzivil declares that the men
of both armies are absolutely venomous
in their antagonism. Lieut.. Gen. Stoes-
sci has addressed his garrison saying
that the present mood of the Japanese
indicates clearly the necessity of resist
ing them to the last drop of Russian
blood, because if the japanese soldiers
entered the fortress it undoubtedly
would be impossible for their officers to
control them and prevent a massacre.
For this reason Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel is
making no objection to civilians leav-
ing Port Arthur When the 300 women
who are in Port Arthur engaged in hos
pital work were advised to leave, they
replied that they would rather face the
possibility of massacre than desert their
posts.
Dead Unburied.
In consequence of the fact that flags
of truce are ignored. numbers of Jap
! anese dead who have been lying on the
slopes of the hills of the northeast de-
lenses for weeks past are still unburied,
and the stencil in Port Arthur from de-
composing bodies. when the wind is in
the right direction, is almost unendur-
able. The Russian soldiers, who are in
some cases posted only so PAGES from
heaps of decaying dead, have constantly
| to wear over their noses handkerchiefs
soaked in camphor. as otherwise they
would be unable to remain at their
posts.
] A CHASTITY Field Of Horror.
In the course of the assaults which
took place in the four last days of Au-
gust two companies of Japanese soldiers,
according to Prince Radzivil, found
themselves at the mercy of the Russians
and hoisted white flag. To this, how
ever, the Russians paid no attention and
continued to volley rapidly into the help
| less ranks of the enemy.