Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-03
Capitulation Terms.
SITUATION WAS DESPERATE.
Revelations of Port Arthur Conditions
in Stoessels DISPATCHES.

ST PETERSBURG. January 3-General
StoessePs dispatches by way of Chefoo 20
the general staff relate how the position of
the fortress of Port Arthur gradually he
came less safe and more critical the raw
ages of scurvy increasing enormously the
casualty lists already so considerable from
the Japanese assaults and commandments
Toward the end of the year the supplies
or ammunition completely gave out there
were li.GD sick and wounded in the hos
Pltais and 800 fresh casualties coming in
daily.
The general reports that at the end of
the siege he had only 10000 men under
arms, the remainder of the original garri-
son having been either killed or disabled
The text of General StoessePs dispatches
follow:
on Or, December 2s the general wrote:
The position Of The fortress is becoming
very painful. Our principal enemies are
scurvy, which is moving uown the men. and
eIeFen-inch shells, which know no obstac Gle
ana against which there is no protection
Ihere only remain a few who have not been
attacked by scurvy. We have taken all the
possible measures. but the disease is
epteadihS- Inc passive endurance of the
enemy commandment, the eleven-inch
sneHs' the lmpossibility of replying for want
OF ammunition, the outbreak of scuryy and
the loss of a mass of officers-au these
causes diminish daily the capabilities OF
the defense.
The tale of the losses of bieber ofroo,.u :.
an Indication OF the enormous losses we
nave sustained OF ten generals two Knn-
urdtehko and Tserpitsky, have been killed
fdzhatoVsky is dead. two are wounded
hSsei ana Gennadeire, while Gorbatowsky
is suHerirg from contuslons
or nine regimental commanders and co,o-
heIs frlhce Matchabeli Naoumenko has
been Killed, Douire and Glagolew have suc-
cumDed TO wounds and four Others have
Deeh wounded One lieutenant colonel has
been killed and two are wounded
On December % General StoesseI wrote.
AT 10 O'Clock yesterday morning tie
Japanese blew up part of the parapet of
fort No 3. They afterward opened a Sc
we're bombardment along the whole front
but especially on fort No. g. At ahout :,
O'Clock in the afternoon they dashed to
the attack OF the parapet from the moa
ana Glaois, where they had been held in
readiness. Two attacks were repulsed. but
the Japanese occupied the funnel-shaped
opening formed by the explosion and re-
inforeed by their reserves began to run
across across the moat in groups OF about five.
ihey occupied the parapet, and at ,lusl,
the fort - %
our troops fought from the entrench-
hiehts' winch were badly damaged. Part
OF our troops hid themselves In the case
ments, but the Japanese placed machine
guns IN front of the exit from the case
ments, thus fepriytng our men hidden there
of all possibility of making an attack
Three counter attacks from the outside by
our reserves met with no success The fort
consequently remained In possession OF the
japanese. Our losses were considerable,
especially in officers.
THE survivors of the garrison succeeded
In getting out of the fort by the windows
By the occupation of this fort the japanese
became masters of the whole north front.