The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-08
SECTION Two

stencil, sun and Russian sharpshooters
| combined, that even japanese soldiers
could pear only one witch of thirty
minutes in eight hours. ana sentries
We're changed that often.
Stoessel as Wonderful as His Forts.
II Port Arthur has been apparently
mp eS4ldD ole. SO has SIoessel been
Not a Russian but a swiss. he com
/ pines the prudence. foresight ana ;
Conliable win of his ancestry Win fbo
| cehtury-famed defensive Hehtina- abfI-
~ 1I the land Of his adoption. he has
n o1Sil lour years in Port Arthur has
, superihtended the building OF the fort..
ana knows every inch OF the gro,nG
he mas made up his mind To die
there. and his will alone is enough no
uOiq Out 10 the last His wife. a SYM
pdt hetlc woman. who spends much
/ tlne in the hospitals. is with him ne
| Is IN the prime of life, - years old.
/ and in perfect heath. despite the con
/ stant rumors that he has been wound
He is the most rigid discfplinarian inr
the russian army. and is heartily dis
liked BY the soldiers on that account
/ The first orders he issued in Port Ar
J thur after the Japanese WarsrfUs hp-
I gan to lombard was for ever,- d+eo-
oerly woman 90 leave the place. Leave
they did. some to Lao Yang. some L.,
/ Shanghai No women remain now but
| the wives of officers al of svht4rn de-
] vote their time in the hospital
The second order StOessel. issued con-
cerned drink He made the penalty
| death for any officer o.. man found
drunk, and Imprisonment on bread and
water for any who sold or bought
liquor beyond the ration. The ration
per day for each soldier is a tot OF
vodka, amounting TO about two gills.
and To each officer pint Of champagne
or 2 gill of brandy or whisky.
Three privates and one officer have
/ been shot in Port Arthur within the
past four months for violating this
military order.
Every Lethal Weapon Known on
Earth.
StOessel has awaited himself of every
weapon Of defense On which he could
lay hands.
In the assaults on the KeIzvau forts
in August. his men resisted with dung
balls tossed into the faces OF their ad-
vancing foes
Japanese burial parties have not
been permitted 10 inter their own
fallen between the lines of the bloody
angle The resulting stencil in the
brOilinS summer sun was carried by
the wind and the decliviJy into the
Japanese faces and made living next
TO unbearable-
The Russians above, safe in perma-
nent works, smiled in grim gIee The
dead We're helping them as the living
could not.
Wounded men falling in this zone
have been shot by men in the Russian
line and left TO rot In han6-tO-hand
lighting nothing possible has been
omitted grenades pistols, bayOnets,
SaberS, pOcketkniNeS. stones, CudEelS.
fists, teeth and Iead-weighted boots
have been in the final scrimmages.
StOessel is tricky one night in Aug
Ust he let his searchli gifts go out as il
hit When the assault went in under
the paTaPeJs. he suddenly threw the
whole face of the hill into relief with
the quickly displayed light. in this
way two japanese regiments We're
trapped and almost entirely destroyed.
At all times the Russian fire is re-
served until il can be used with the
most deadly effect At one time a flag
Of truce was raised on the shoulder Of
the KekWan fJrt-thiS was Aug "a
and when the japanese advanced to &C
cept surrender they We're met with
shell and bullet. But this should not
be charged 10 Stoessel for it was prob
ably due to some desperate private al
an advanced post
No Fear OF Famine in Port Arthur.
The Russians have enough food. In
the beginning they had -four and
canned beef TO last year and other
wise the place was well pTOVisiOned-
Since then a number Of 1unkS-perhaps
a dOzen-and at least one 6,0O0-tOn
steamer have run the blockade
If they can beach anywhere on the
LiaotiShan coast their mission is ac-
cOmplished- Hundreds of JunkS are
sent out from the Russian agents IN
ChefOO and Shanghai About one IN
twenty reaches its destination The
rest are picked up by the japanese
navy. But one in twenty makes IL
worth while and the successful China
man is made independent Tor IKE, tof
5000 roubIes is the price paid a JUNK
for running the blockade. This means
as much 10 a Chinaman as Sl,OOO,UUO
would to the average American
One fact which alone would prove
this statement of the food condition IS
the nature of the supplies found by the
Japanese on captured junks- They are
about % per cent fresh vegetables, be
ing deIicacies, apparently Tor the OH
GERS tables. over half Of the plumber
is onions StOessels object seems to be
To prevent scUrvy.
If he is paying five thousand Tubble5
for fifty tons of onions, he is not SUI
ferine for beef and flour Doubtless
he would know how to do Justice TO a
full-cOurse dinner, but as for the eat
| ing Of horse flesh and sole leather and
all that starving nonsense-pShaW-
/ There are two sources Of information
about Port Arthur-deseTters and ref
ugees- In general the deserters all
/ agree with one another The deserteTs
say there is scarcity and desperation,
[ the refugees that there is sufficiency
and excellent morale. One who has
seen the repulse of a grand assault
/ needs no testimony as TO morale The
/ Russian dead and prisoners look well
enough fed
AS for water, the Russians have ap-
/ paratus for condensing sea. water, two
/ fine artesian wells and a number Of
good Chinese hand wheels. besides three
/ of the four pumping stations they or
/ iginally held
! Reported Lack Of Ammunition in the
/ Forts.
Ammunition? Here is the crux of
/ the situation. The whole question OF
/ Port Arthur now resolves itself into
/ this: How long viii the ammunition
/ hold out? They are short of sharpnel.
! which, next TO rifle bullets, is the most
| essential thing If they had plenty
/ of sharpnel they could make it hot
4 for the advancing Japanese, but, as
| it is. they always save every shot I'M
/ til it can tell What they do fire into
| the Japanese camp IS naval ammuni-
| ton and does little harm
! 1t is believed that they have plenty OF