The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-12-05
ECHOES FROM
THE WAR
HerOiSm Of Nine. StOesSel. the
Saint of Port Arthur.
MEALTIME UNDER FIRE.
Scene on Russian Fighting Line When
the Bread Wagons Appeared-JaP-
anese Tribute to Brave Mus
covite Officer.
MEALTIME UNDER FIRE.

While the world militant Is full Of
praise for General Anatole Stoessefs
desperately heroic defense OF Port Ar
thur. too little is said Of the magniti-
cent and devoted share that Mime.
stoessel has had in that work, says q
special cable dispatch from ST. Peters
burg to the New York American and
Journal. General stoessel Is undoubt-
eddy the hero Of Port Arthur. Nine
stoessel is surely its heroine, while the
garrison calls her Its saint.
When General Stoessel was called to
serve in the FAR east his wife followed
him. When the siege OF Port Arthur
began she did not think for moment
Of leaving the invested fortress, and
from the time the first gun was fired
she took on herself the direction Of the
ambulance service. Her work In that
post was SO splendid that soon the sol
diera came to regard her as a proyi-
dence, a protectress with whose life
was linked that Of the beseged city.
And SO it came to pass that when on
the 3D. Of August last Nine Stoessel,
while ministering to a wounded soldier,
was seriously injured in the shoulder
By the fragment Of q she'll q general
grief, mingled with fright, was spread
throughout the citadel. The feeling Of
sorrow and dread was even expert
enced ct st, Petersburg, and was in
tensifed BY the receipt Of General
stoessel's pathetic message that Port
Arthur would be his tomb. message
| it is said, which was written by the
| bedside Of bis stricken wife.
But, wonderful to say, Eve days aft
er being wounded that Is, the Sth Of
August Nine. Stoessei quilted ths
hospital and Immediately made q tour
of the forts to reassure the garrison
Struggled letters received at st, Pc
tershurg describe this visit as seins
one of the most touching Incidents q
the siege. Men wept, while others
knelt down by companies and kisseC
the hem OF the gallant woman's dresi
az though she were saint.
| Al Russian correspondent with Gen
eral Orion's force at the battle Q
Iiaoyang gives the following piS
turesque account Of the feeding Of th
Russian soldiers during battle, say
the London Standard:
| Hunger was written On every man
face, starving. wolfish hunger
which intensified the feroclous ez
pressions of the dirty, tired and angr
men,
AT z o'clock d deafening roar ran
all along the trenches. turned M
glasses to look for charging Japs, br
my ear soon distinguished not "a
martial IRA. but a triumphant shot
Of 'Khleb, khleb. khleb tbreadlw
don't think IL the commander in chie
had ridden up on his white horse b
would have got such a reception.
'aThe commisaariat men, with wat
ons and baskets, came forward bravel
through the bursting Japanese she'll
Bread. breadv roared the soldier
And every one OF them looked happ
and amused as children with Chris
mas toys. All snatched eagerly. and
can never forget the horrible laug
and scramble which began wien
: shell knocked d wagon to bits, KILN
> the driver and strewing the blac
hunks al over the ground. The 50
. diers, conscious Of nothing but hunge
! jumped from their positions and stTui
gied. buffeted and butted one anothc
= ''The dead man in the middle Of Il
. bread was not even looked at. The
another shell fell. II did not explod
j But nobody save the soldier who's
/ foot II had smashed 70 PUN paid u
slightest attention. and not until ever
man had secured his dinner was Il
shell removed"
: The Rnsso-Iapanese war abounds
romance and deeds Of chivalry, says
! HI ~ ssYFa