Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-01-06
PORT ARTHUR TAKEN.
Wounded and Starving, Brave Stoessel
Surrenders on New Years Day.
OTHER INTERESTING WAR ITEMS,

.ne'r mercy, ana lt was sup to-
Stoessel and his brave men to either
perish miserably or capitulate.
AROUND MUKDEN.
A Manchurian winter, with all
that it means, has locked military
and all other operations within it's
embrace. The Russians have bad
700 men frozen to death. and il is
claimed by Russian Cossacks that IN
one of their raids they found 2,C0OI
Japs frozen, and that they captured
the helpless survivors.
The best news from that quarter
IS a letter from Gen. Kuroki, the
"Stonewall jackson" of Japan's
army, showing him to be still alive,
Though not abiding to such thing
1t is believed in Europe that the
dashlng kuroki has been sorely
wounded, which would account for
no tidings of him for two months.
Small detachments nightly attack
the outposts and patrols, but with
no success. The Russians along the
front OF General Oku's army, during
the night of December goth, made a
determined attack on Lamuting, but
where driven back with heavy loss.
Intense hatred exists between some
of the opposing forces in trenches
close together, Notwithstanding the
friendly terms existing at other parts
OF the fronts of the two armies.
The russians claim that the Japa-
nese are hiring Chinese bandits to
operate on the Russian TANKS and
are enlisting Chinese under Japanese
officers.
The japanese are adopting cum
ming expedients TO defeat the sur
prise attacks of the Russian scouts.
from which they have suffered much.
They cover the steep approaches of
their trenches with water, which
freezes, forms ice slides and make
the scouts slip and fall in confusion.
In other places the Japanese scatter
millet stalks over the approaches.
the cracking of which gives them
warning of the approach of Russian.
scouts.
OPERATIONS OF THE FLEETS.
The international commission on
the Dogger Bank inquiry is sitting
IN Paris.
Admiral Rojestvensky's division of
the Baltic fleet has reached MAZDA
gascar, on the east coast of Africa.
where it has been ordered to stop.
1t is not believed, since the fall
OF Port Arthur, that the Baltic
ileet Will dare continue it's journey.
Viadlvostok, now the only eastern
port left to Russia, is ice. blocked
To reach it Rojestvensky would
have to pass Japan if he was
not stopped by Togo's victorious
squadron before getting there.
Kept out of Vladivostok, and with
no coaling station, the Russian fleet
would be forced to find refuge in a
neutral port, in which event the
ships would have to dismantel and
remain until the war is over. Rus
STA seemingly has but one naval
recourse-to break the treaty laws
by sending her Black Sea feet
through the Dardanelles, for the
purpose of combining with Rolest-
vensky to oyerwhelm Togo. To
break the treaty would bring down
upon her head the wrath of England.
and possibly other nations.
Russia's Port Arthur feet, once a
line array, has, with few exceptions.
found grave in the deep. The last
Of her mighty vessels there, the
Sevastopol, pierced and sunkep,
was blown up by Stoessel before the
surrender of Port Arthur. Stoessel
found little help from, and extended
little praise to the Port Arthur navy.
Admiral Togo and Vice-Admiral
kamimura, in their journey to
Toxic to report to the Mikado, were
greatly retarded by the ovations a
grateful people showered upon the
now famous naval heroes. They
declined the offer of a reception by
the city, pleading that their work was |
not yet fully accomplished, that
there were great things yet to do, in |
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