Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-10-07

er, 1T be expended. There
10 prac' 'ly no loss by diversion of
puoilc DIS to illegitimate uses.
Ihere Is actically no graft" in
the hatet' hrase which has become
so faniIia: our ears.
on tne,h of October, 1903, the
Ozar OF a.th Russias agreed to
eVacpate hcl luria. He has been
eIesen years al ing his promise, but
nuropatkln IN. s to be keeping it
Kamimura ,,. ,tchino with hi.
'lee. 10 proven ne 'ther raidipg ex-
petition of the IS ,ian VIadiyostok
ieet- Naval eA tbs now declare
that Kamimura's>e fight with the
Vladivostok fleet One Of most
brilliant sea fights history
Recently Russia ,red 100000
bullet-proof breastP : from an
Italian inventor. Jap;Amediatelv
ordered 100000. R;aI CONNER.
manded her order, an, wv Janan
follows suit again.
The Japs have gotten ,ailroad
which they captured frol,. , Rus
SLAMS, into perfect WORK order
between Liaoyang and Dal, Cnear
Port Arthur). This is a 9 helm
to Japanese operations.
FEARFUL CARNAGE AT PORT A. Urn
General Stoessel, Russian nm
mander at Port Arthur, has flSIv
refused to surrender. A friencSSf
his says that even if ordered to yi%
he would refuse to do so. yS
One thousand Russians were al
initiated by a counter mine explode,
by the Japanese.
Admiral Togo is blockading Chef
to prevent the Russian warships a
Port Arthur from escaping to tina
port.
The Russians have lost another
steamer in clearing Port Arthu
harbor of mines that the fleet ma
escape with less danger and as noise
lessly as possible. 1t is expecte,
that the Russian fleet will soon b
forced to leave.
The Russiansare trying desperatelv
to retake the positions at Port Arthu
which the Japanese have succeede,
IN capturing. The Japanese con
tinue TO hold most of the capture,
positions, including the one dominat
ing the water supply of the city
They have mounted heavy guns
which are said to command the entir
harbor.
Terrific fighting is going on a
Port Arthur. The Russians ar
making heroic efforts to regain For
Kuropatkin and recover control O.
the city's regular water supply. O,
both sides the loss is large. Though
the regular water supply of the cit,
is now in Japanese hands, the garri
son has another supply still available
General Stoessel has issued a char
acteristlc proclamation on the repuls,
OF the japanese attack of September
10 to %. He exults in the drawer,
of his men. Details of the fightins
show that the Japanese assaulted
with the greatest valor, but were
unable to retain any material advan.
tage. The Japanese having retired
General Stoessel issued the following
proclamation: "Gloryl Thanks tc
God! Glory to our heroic garrison.
Glory to Illmann, Sychaff and Pog-
gorsky-heroes all. franks to oal
valiant volunteers who routed the
enemy from the trenches, DESTROYING
them. God has permitted us to re-
pulse the enemy. Praise to God"
The volunteers referred to by Gen
eral Stoessel in the proclamation were
made up of regulars called upon to
take a high hill which had been cap.
tured by the Japanese. The attack
began on the 10th along the whole
line and lasted-~four days, various
positions changing hands many times.
The high hill mentioned was a
very important position to the Rus.
slams. The Japanese attacked re-
peatedly, day and night, finally ocou-
plying the position on the night of
September 22d, after suffering very
severe losses. The attempt to retake
this hill being extremely hazardous
General Stoessel refused to issue the
order, but called for yolunt eers.
Everybody called upon responded,
whereupon requisite number of
men were selected, Lieutenant Pog-
yorsky and Captain Sychaff leading
hem. Soldiers aud officers alike
carried grenades explosive shells
weighing from two to six pounds,
which are thrown by hand), and
With these they attacked the jana
lese temporary Notifications and
irove the latter from all of their
positions. Several mines were ex-