The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-17
lAPANS LATEST SPOILS
Troops, Armament and War Vessels
Captured at PORT Arthur.
$4,000 RUSSIANS ENGAGED

Large Force of the Czar's Soldiers NOW
Known to Have Defended the city
Four Battleships saved-Fifty-Fou1
Heavy Artillery Pieces SURRENDERED
Popular Feeling In Russia.
Toxic, Japan. a long dispatch to
the Imperial War Department General
Nogi announced that he had completed
the tabulation of the prisoners Of war
and of the forts, guns, ammunition
and ships captured in Port Arthur.
He finds Is, 1872 men of the army and
navy in the hospitals, making in round
numbers, about $4,000 men-of-arms
captured, of which number 1900 be-
longed to the navy. This indicates
that the Port Arthur garrison in the
beginning must have numbered 10000
and is proof of the great task accom-
plished by the Japanese troops against
the fortress.
General Nogi said that the perma-
nent forts which have fallen into pos
session of his army number fifty. He
has fifty-four cannon of the largest
calibre, 149 of medium calibre, 343
small field guns, $3.50 cannon balls.
100000 rounds of ammunition, 35,252
rifles and 1920 horses. He regards as
salvable four battleships, two cruisers.
fourteen gunboats and destroyers, ten
steamers and sixty small steamers, OF
which thirty-dye will be serviceable
after small repairs.
The battleship Sevastopol he wires.
Is entirely sunk, and it will be Some
weeks before the naval engineers viii
be able to say whether this war vessel
can be made Of service to the navy.
The prisoners who have already ar
rived will be distributed among three
provinces. All have arrived in good
health, among the number being lat
officers With them have come sixteen
survivors of the Third detachment Of
Japanese sent by Admiral Togo to
block the entrance to Port Arthur with
stone-laden steamers. General Mae
Arthur and one aid will be permitted
to accompany Marshal Oyama in the
new Manchurian campaign. The
American Minister Mr.. Griscom has
been informed by the War Office that
General Macarthur may remain with
Marshal Oyama or attach himself to
st. Petersburg, Russia. "A high Off
cial of the War Department, speaking
by authority. said that there would
be no peace with Japan until General
Kuropatkin won a decisive victory
The prestige of Russia abroad and the
peculiar situation at home would not
permit peace at this time. Russia had
been continuously defeated both on sea
and land. and it would never do to
make peace at this time with all the
advantage in the hands of Japan
There is a. strong peace party in ST.
Petersburg and in Moscow, and most
of the radicals also demand cessation
of the war. The general mass of pe0-
pie, however. are against this, and will
be until satisfied the Russian army
south of Mukden cannot win back the
positions lost in the autumn and sum-
mer of last year.
Mukden The Japanese left army
has spread itself well across the Hun
River southwest of Mukden, and it is
evident that large relnforcements have
been received Chinese that have en-
tered this city from the west say that
more than 10000 men have joined Mar
shall Oyama's forces since the fall of
Port Arthur. and that the railroad for
ten days past has been bringing up
heavy siege guns. It is not likely that
there will be any serious fighting be-
fore the end of March. The engineers
of both armies have been steadily
working to better fortify positions now
held and the attacking army undoubt-
eddy will be at great disadvantage
because of these fortifications when
the actual fighting begins.