Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-19
THEY SHOW NO MERCY
Belligerents at Port Arthur
Fight With Rage.
TRUCE FLAGS IGNORED
ACCOUNT OF PRINCE RADZIvIL OF
THE RUSSIAN ARMY.
Declares That the Men of Both Armies
Are Venomous in Their Antagonist
Gen. Nogi's Death Reported.

According to Lieut.. Price Radzivil of the
Russian army, who reached Chefoo Satur-
day night from Port Arthur bearing dis
patches from Lieutenant General StoesseI,
the commander-in-chief Of the forces of the
Russian stronghold. to General Kuropatkin,
the temper of the belligerents at Port Ar
thur has reached an absolutely merciless
stage Prince Radzivil served with the
British in the Boer war and says that until
he became aware of the state of affairs at
Port Arthur he had no idea that war could
be SO horrible.
Prince Radzivil declares that the men of
both armies are absolutely venomous in
their antagonism. Lieutenant General Stoes-
sci has addressed his garrison, saying that
the present mood of the Japanese indicates
clearly the necessity of resisting them to
the last drop of Russian blood because II
the Japanese soldiers entered the fortress
1t undoubtedly would be impossible for their
officers to control them and prevent a mas
s sacre. For this reason Lieutenant General
Stoessel is making no objection to civilians
leaving Port Arthur. When the 300 wo-
men who are in Port Arthur engaged in
hospital work were advised to leave they
replied that they would rather face the
possibility of massacre than desert their
posts.
Bodies Lying Unburied.
In consequence of the fact that flags of
truce are ignored, numbers of JAPANESE
dead who have been lying on the slopes of
the hills of the northeast defenses for weeks
past are still unburied, and the stencil in
Fort Arthur from decomposing bodies.
When the wind is in the right direction. is
almost uncomfortable. The Russian soldiers
mno are. III some cases. posted only fifty
PAGES from heaps of decaying dead have
constantly to wear over their noses hand
kercnefs soaked in camphor as otberwisa
posts ~
In the course of the assaults which took
place IN the four last days of August two
companies of Japanese soldiers accordin g,
10 Prince Radzivil. found themselves al the
mercy OF the Russians and hoisted a white
as. 10 tnls, however, the Russians paid
no attention. and continued to yollev ran
IDLY into the helpless ranks of the enenny
III ,he meantime Japanese troops in tbe
rear OF the companies that had raised the
w S nag saw what their comrades had
zone and expressed their disannrov.I 81
the surrender by firing into the roar A.
result or this fire from friend and foe 600
men were annihilated. The dead fell among
snu aecomposing bodies of previous "a,
saults Four days afterward tho wo,,nSn,
men IN this area raised fiutterinp bandi,o
chleIs In their hands in pleas for helm nj
sie russians We're afraid to venture ont 70
give succor. ou' "
feroc1ty OF the Belligerents.
among the heaps of dead the prince saw
."o soldiers. one Russian and the other .
p''heSe' lying locked in a death embrace
1 ne teeth Of the Japanese were sunk in tho
Russians throat. while the Russian had
forced two of his fingers into the eye SOCK
Gus ol ms antagonist. The prince cited This
as merely an incident denoting the feroo ouin
OF the conflict at Port Arthur o'''
Ihe prince will leave today to reioin Cow
eral kuropatkin. With another RnSsian 81
n nsea' p pWo civilians and one woman. the wife
OF russian staff officer, he left Port Ar
thur the night of September 16 on a innl
and arrived here last night '-1
Prince Radzivil got into Port Arthur
General kuropatkin to Lieut.. Gen Stoessei
men ne landed in this port he did NOT
make himself known under the name given
ABOVE put the correspondent of the Assoc
Identity. Ills
The prince and the officer ACCOMMODATING
MIN Drought out dispatches and mail mat
e etr from no, Fort arthur, weighing in all
escaping the vigilance Of the Japanese
Supplies at Port Arthur.
Continuing his interview with the CORE
spondent, the prince said
The stories in circulation concerning the
shortage of ammunition and provisions at
Port Arthur are not true There 10 on
abundance OF ammunition for both large
and small arms. and plenty of preserved
FOOD. The use of Chinese shells was noara
~ a saving measure.
Il left Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel in the best Of
spirits He Is encouraged by the heroic ex-
ample set by the wounded men of WHOM,
5000 out of the original 5000 in hosnitaI
have returned to the front
There has been no fighting since SEN
TEMPER 1, with the exception of artillery and
outpost exchanges.
The Japanese shells have done great
damage to the hospital and other buildings
In Port Arthur, but the loss of life from
these commandments has been very slight
Mime. Stoessel wife of the general is at
the mead OF the Red Cross work in Port Ar
thur she Is in constant attendance at the
hospitals. and cares tenderly for wounded
men. In addition to this exhausting work
she finds time to give succor to orphans and
widows and to experimenting the making
of bandages. The soldiers consider her
their guardian angel.
The garrison is maintaining a strong and
devoted martial spirit, and has great conf
dence in Lieut.. Gen Stoessel, who Is cheer
ed by the men when he rides along the
lines.
The newspaper Novikraf has been SIM
pressed for one month for having published
matter considered to be detrimental to Rus
sian interests.
Acts Of Heroism.
Individual acts of heroism during the
fighting have been numerous, and the tragic
death of Lieutenant Petroff was for long an
absorbing topic of conversation. Petror
became surrounded by some japanese SOL
diers. whom he fought successfully till his
sword broke. He then used his fists upon
the Japanese. but their bayonets quickly
put an end TO resistance. Before his sword
broke, Petroff succeeded in incapacitatinp
eight of his antagonists. but he was wound
ed all over his body.
one company of Russian troops were oc-
cupying perilous outpost, and when they
FOUND their position to be untena Bile they
sent the following message to Lieutenant
General Stoessel:
We are unable to hold this position
But you can die he said In reply. and
so they did.
The fact that the Japanese have on sew
eral occasions used explosive bullets has
been verified by Lieutenant General Stoes-
sell He gives an instance which occurred
at Takushan, when two men of the 10Th
Regiment We're killed by such bullets, their
bodies being blown to pieces.
ION September IA the bodies of 26W
Japanese soldiers We're discovered between
fort No and fort No. g. The stencil from
the decOmDOSed bodies attracted iuvesti0o-