Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-01-09
PORT ARTHUR srRRESpERs.
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by the statement of the secretary of |
embassy at London that the campaign |
will be renewed with fresh vigor in |
the spring and that the nation will |
not De content to permit Port Arthur |
to remain in the hands of the Japa-
nese.
What Port Arthur has cost in human |
life and in money no estimate of even |
approximate correctness can be made. |
The losses have been appalling. The |
defence of the position which fell to |
her as heritage after the Chinese
Japanese war has cost Russia practi- |
cally her entire fleet in those waters. |
! Save three or four cruisers and some
lesser craft that lie in the ice bound
refuge of Vladivostok not a warship
now flies the Russian cross in the
waters of the northern Orient. Japan,
too, has bad her losses. Mines have
been struck and Admiral Togo's feet
has lost many fine ships and smaller
vessels since the morning of Febru-
airy s, when he hurled his feet at the
Russian ships in Port Arthur's road
| stead.
Among Russian officials there is a
feeling that any proposals of peace
that may be made must be with the
fact in view that in order that peace
must be lasting Japan must recognize
Russia's right to free transit of it's
ships through waters of the Far East.
High Japanese officials declare that
no probability of advances coming
from their government looking tow
ard peace negotiations. In official
quarters in st. Petersburg it is said
that no tender of good offices from
third party would be accepted, and
that any proposal for peace must
come from Japan direct.
Tho text of the articles of capitula-
ton of the Port Arthur garrison
signed by the commissioners repre-
senting General Nogi has been made
public. All Russian soldiers, marines
and civil officials of the garrison and
harbor are made prisoners; all forts,
batteries, vessels, munitions, etc., are
transferred to the Japanese in the
condition in which they existed at
noon of January 3, violation of this
clause to operate as an annulment OF
the negotiations, giving the Japanese
army warrant to take free action;
the Russian military and naval au-
thorities are to furnish to the Japanese
army an exhibit of all Notifications,
a list of military officers of ships and
the numbers of their crews and of
civilians of both sexes, With their race
and occupations; and all public prop
erty as buildings, munitions of war,
etc., to be left in the present position,
pending arrangement for their trans
terrence. Officers of the army and
navy are permitted to retain their
swords and such of their personal
property as is directly necessary for
the maintenance of life, and with one
servant each may, upon signing their
parole not to take arms during the
continuance OF the war, return to
, Russia. Non-commissioned officers
| and privates will be held as prisoners.
For the benefit of the sick and wound
ed Russians the sanitary corps and
/ the accountants belonging to the
l Russian army and navy will be re-
} quired to serve under the Japanese
sanitary corps and accountants for
such period of time as may be deemed
necessary.
r Interesting statistics concerning
3 the Russian losses at Port Arthur:
i Originally the army numbered 3D.
= 600. Eleven thousand have been
l., killed; $1,000 are wounded or sick
3 and 5000 remained in the forts, OF
3 whom however, 1000 were unable to
? fight.
q 1t is learned that when General
t Stoessel wrote to General Nogi re-
: garding the surrender of the fortress
q he said:
J. 81 have 5000 men in the forts and
0 5000 of these are able to fight. IF
Q you do not accept my proposal, these
!, men will die fighting, but it will cost
g you three times their number to kill
3 them.'
During the siege 265 per cent. of
the garrison were put out of action.
This remarkable fact was due to
wounded men returning to the front.
f Cases have been recorded where men
have gone to hospitals four times,
}, returning convalescent to the forts.
The number of officers killed was
4 proportionately greater than in any
Q battle known to history. This was
. due to the frequent lethargic condi-