The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-12-19
|UNDAUNTED
STOESSEL
PIT. Arthur C0mmandant Still
Keeps His Courage
MESSENGER TO THE CAR
In Which he Describes the Fierce
Fighting ofthe LastFOur
Weeks
MESSENGER TO THE CAR

LONDON, Dec. 19-Adviccs from st.
Petersburg give General StOessers
latest report to the emperor He says;
Il beg to inform your majesty that
| after an increased bombardment the
| japanese in spite of great losses, have
effected by their perseverance IA pas
| sage between two forts on the north
eastern front of Port Arthur.
"On Nov. % the Japanese suddenly
hurled themselves against several
| works on this front and seized Il pOr
ton Of the trenches. but they were
thrown back by the reserves after Il
| fierce bayouet struggle. They return
ed to the assault at midnight and
again occupied part of the trenches,
| but were annhiated by our bayOnetS.
Al o'clock in the morning all was
over. aud your maiesty's heroic troops
were able to rest and start repairing
the damage caused 10y the lombard
mcut
From the 2Oth 10 the 2lth the Japa-
neSe lost more than 5000 men. All
our troops behaved rs heroes. The
following especially distinguished them
selves Generals koudratcnko, Nikitm
and Gorbatowsky and Lieutenant Colo
mel Naoumenko.
ION the 2Gth the Japanese began 10
lombard and attack fcrcely the forts
on the northeastern front ana the ad-
vanCed trenches The trenches repeat
eddy changed hands. Nevertheless, on
the night of 26th we threw back the
japanese at the point of the bayOnet.
The enemy succeeded in blowing up
the parapet of one of the forts and be-
gan building parallels there. At an
other fort on the same night they laid
sacks along the rampant, but our artil-
lery dispersed them. Toward 10 O'Clock
in the evening the Japanese attacked
battery on our left flank in conSidera-
BILE strength and AT first obtained pos
session of portion of the works, but
our heroes brought bayOnets into use.
and the japanese retired leaving a
heap of their slain. The japanese re-
opened a violent fire against the inte-
rior of the fortress on the morning Of
Nov. y.
THE help which God sent us on the
birthday Of our mother, the czarina
gave us further victory.
Since Nov. - the japanese have
been carrying on a violent lombard
ment and making inCessant assaults in
considerable force against Nisokai
1.-TWO Hundred and Three Meter, hill.
THE twelve days assault which
commenced on Nov 20, was definitely
repulsed on Dec. T. | am happy 10
say that your majestys heroic troops
alone could have been capable of do
ing this There has never been such
a fierce assault.
AT I O'Clock in the morning the
Japanese. having concentrated all their
forces. began an assault of NisOkai |
1.-TWO Hundred and Three Meter, hill, |
bombarding it simultaneously with |
eleven inch and sixteen inch shells. \ |
fierce fight ragged all day. We repealed |
three assaults.
Toward evening the Japanese sue |
ceeded in obtaining possession of the |
crest Of the hill and Immediately got |
~vo machine guns into position there
on.
Among the wounded are General |
Tserpinsky and Lieutenant Colonel
Boutonssoff of the frontier guards |
Colonel Irrmann performed prodigies
of valor.
since the capture of Nisokai hill |
our ships in the harbor have been suf- |
fering from eleven inch Japanese
shells
General Tserpinsky has succumbed
TO his wounds.
THE spirits of the troops are excel
lent"
A Chefu dispatch says that Com
ma nder Mizzeneoff. executive officer of
the battleship Poltava up TO the time
the vessel was disarmed and who. as
already told. headed the party OF sew
en- Russians who left Port Arthur in
a sailboat on Dec. II and after eX-
treme suffering while crossing in a
driving snowStorm arrived here. bear
ing dispatches, when interviewed said:
Since the Japanese began their at-
tack on High hill. which they call Two
Hundred and Three Meter hill. the