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THE SURRENDER OF PORT
ARTHUR.
1t looks a. if the psychological
moment had come for the world pow.
ers to move for mediation aud peace.
! This comment on the fall of Port
Arthurois quoted from the New iort
American. but the SAINT. comment, i!
slightly vary ing words, is common tC
Il large number of American journals.
Secretary Hay. = says the New York
service to humanity than to sound
Tokyo and st. Petersburg 10 ascertain
if the friendly offices of the United
States would now he accepted i'll the
! interests OF n peace that need not
humiliate Russia and would give Jap
an the assurances for which she has
been fighting.
! The initiative in this matter should
not, however, be taken by Secretary
HAY. says General Sickles, in an in
teryiew in the New York Globe, but
| by France. He continues:
The war is over must he over.
In capturing the strongest fortress in
| the world except Gibraltar Japan
has completed the work for which the
war was begun. She has all of Korea
and Manchuria. She is twenty times
richer to-day than Russia. She has
| the whole of Europe behind her. with
the United States in active sympathy.
Her position is impregnable. The
Gar must gave way He can no more
hope to win back his ground than he
could hope TO conquer combined
Europe. From what know of the
sentiment of Japan, the MikadO has
only waited for the fall of Port
Arthur to advance halfway TO a
peaceful settlement. OF course. we
would all like to see the United
States and Great Britain taking the
leading part i'll the approaches toward
mediation. But the difficulty is that
Russia. remembering our outburst of
anger over the Kishniff massacres,
hates us as cordially as she hates Eng
land 1t seems to me France, Russia 5
chief creditor and her passive ally, is
logically the first nation TO suggest to
the Gar that he must accept his de-
feat and make peace. -
The overture for the surrender of
Port Arthur was made by General
Stoessel in note that reached the
Japanese lines south of Shinsiying ut
five O'Clock in the afternoon of Jan
uary |, reaching General Nogi him
self four hours later. The capitula-
tion was completed at f:30 z. NJ, the
day after. Prior to that event, and
Just before hostilities were suspended,
the japanese had occupied keekwan
Mountain and . fort and the heights
and n More than two months be-
fore, on Oct 21 General Stoessel had
wired the Czar: . now bid you all
good by forever. Pors, .nur is my
grave. On January the general
was still determined to. fight. But
not single spot i'll town was then
safe from the Japanese fire. Says
the correspondent of the Associated
Press:
Many of the hospitals were hit and
the wounded refused to stay in them.
Some lay in the streets on heaps of.
debris, exposed to the bitterly cold
weather, and some staggered buck to
the front, hurting. stones and defying
the japanese till taken prisoners or
death came mercifully to end their
sufferings The stock of ammunition,
which had been carefully husbanded
for months. was almost gone, and it
was all too evident that Japan was
about to grasp the prize which had
cost her an army of men and count
less treasure
Still the general insisted on fight.
ing. But we can not fight, was
the reply of his officers:
Our men can not move. They