The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-19
BARBAROUS FEROCTTY MARKS PORT ARTHUR FIGHTlN
WOUNDED SOLDIERS LEFT TO STARVE
IN SIGHT OF THE OPPOSING LINES
Quarter Is Neither Asked Nor Given Red Gross and
Truce Flags Are ignored and No Attempt Is
Made to Bury the Dead

of his antagonist. The Prince cited
this as merely one incident denoting
the ferocity of the conflict before Port
Arthur.
PRINCE CARRIES DISPATCHES.
Prince Radzivil, another Russian Of
ficer, two civilians and one woman,
the wife of a Russian staff officer, left
Port Arthur on the night of Septem-
Der 16 in a junk.
Prince Radzivil got into Port Ar
thur a fortnight ago, carrying dis
patches from General Ku~opatkin to
Lieutenant General Stoessel
The Prince and the officer accom-
panying him brought out dispatches,
reports and mail matter from Port Ar
thur. weighing in all eighty pounds
They were successful in escaping the
vigilance of the Japanese.
THE stories in circulation concern
ing the shortage of ammunition and
provisions at Port Arthur are not
true said the Prince. There liz an
abundance 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 5000 out of
the original 5000 in the hospital have
returned to the front.
There has been no fighting since
September 1, with the exception of
artillery and outpost exchanges. The
Japanese shells, however, have done
great damage to the hospital and 9TH
er buildings in Port Arthur, but the
loss of life from these bombardments
has been very slight.
mime. Stoessel; wife of the general,
is at the head of the Red Cross work
in Port Arthur. She is in constant
attendance at the hospitals and cares
tenderIy 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 soldiers consider
her their guardian angel.
STOESSEL is GARRISON'S IDOL.
The garrison is maintaining a
strong and devoted martial spirit and
has great confidence in Lieutenant
General StoesseI, who is cheered by
the men when he rides along the
lines.
The newspaper Now Krai has been
suppressed for one month for having
published matter considered to be
detrimental to Russian interests.
Individual acts of heroism during
the fighting have been numerous and
the tragic death of Lieutenant Petroff
was long an absorbing topic of con-
versation. Petroff became surrounded
by some japanese soldiers. who he
fought successfully until his sword
broke. He then used his fists upon
the Japanese, but their bayonets
quickly pat an end to his resistance
Before his sword broke Petroff sue
ceeded in incapacitating eight of his
antagonists, but his body was covered
with wounds.
"One company of Russian troops
was occupying a perilous outpost and
when it found its position to be un-
tenable it sent the following message
to Lieutenant General Stoessel
1--WE are unable to hold this posi-
ton
But you can die their command
er said in reply, and they persisted at
their post.
THE fact that the Japanese have
upon several occasions used explosive
bullets has been verified by Lieutenant
General Stoessel He gives an instance
which occurred at Takushan, when
two men of the Sixteenth Regiment
were killed by such bullets, their bodies
being blown to pieces.
"On September IA the bodies of $500
Japanese soldiers were discovered be-