The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-05
UNDER THE FLAG OF JAPAN
a Review of the Events Immediately
Preceding the Surrender of Port
Arthur.
(Ey the Associated Press J

Arthur
| (By the Associated Press
Headquarters of the Japanese Third
Army at Port Arthut, Jan. 3, via Che
! foo Ian, As. u. M Censored. -
! Tbs flag of the Rising Sun floats to-
night over the captured citadel of
Port Arthur
When the llews of the surrender
| of tho fortress reached the soldiers
yesterday, leapine from mouth t..
mouth, the Japanese drew close 20
their late enemies ard frateInlzed
! freely with them.
| When nightfall came gre&' bonfires,
rose in the japanese camp like b,az
| ing halo, While great choruses of
"banzai'' echoed through the hills.
The entire garrison and all the nom
coTnbataltS will march out or xhe
city January 9Th to the village of
Yahuthwei, near the shores of Figeor
| Bay from which place the Russian
officers will be transported to Dalny
and thence to wherever trey may de-
sire.
The prisoners If war will be 1e-
tnined ut the Russian barracks in
he village until they can be trans
ferrcl TO Dalny and from there to
Japan.
The conference between the Rus
sian and Japanese commissioners ut
which the terms of surrender were ar
ranged took place at the village of
Shuishiying at o'clock yesterday
(Monday) afternoon and lasted until
8 O'Clock at night.
The Russian commissioners We're
Chief OF staff Reiss, Surgeon General
Ballacchoff. Coloncl Tostcc< ana two
other STAFF officers, with two interpre-
ters
The japanese commissioners were
Ma ior- General Tjichi, Chief of StaT.
other staff officers, With two interpre-
ters
Heavy losses of Resiegeps.
F1us has apan won the great Rus
sian stronghold III the Fai Easc after
five montns siege, in which she lost
over fifty thousand soldiers, who were
put odt OF acton in The most san
gulnaTy and desperate -ightinS cte
worid has ever seen.
though thu intination that Russians
were wiling to f5urrender was known
to the officers sof the Japanese staff
onsthe afternoon of January l, it W.T.
not generally known to the hundred
thousand OF the investing army until
yesterday (Mondav).
The surrender of the fortress at the
rresent time came as surprise even
W the Jd DdilcSS. DIS lliE desperate uG-
termination ana courage of the RUS.
.Ians, even III the last assaults. indi-
Gated that the struggle would be one
10 the bitter end
1t 9aS been evident since the cap
ture of 203 Metre Hill, the destruction
of the feet, and the 3wfui manner IN
which the forts qua riding the western
half OF the eastern fortified ridge had
been captured by means of the ex-
plosion OF dynamite mines. that the
lighting ardor Cf the garrison Wdo
dampened and that the hopelessness of
the RUSSIAN position had robbed them
OF their dogged determination to resist
every inch of the advance of the be-
slegers. This hopelessnesS was ev1-
dnced in the weakness of the opposi-
ton 10 the rapid advance of the Jap
anese on the west flank since the fleet
was destroyed.
The tremendous effect of the ex-
piosions which wrecked Sungshu
Mountain fort, the last Of the forts
the main defenses Of the
eastern fortified ridge in which halr
remainder entombed or made prison
ers, completed the disorganization of
the defense
Arrangements for Surrender.
The first definite intimation of the
Russian intention to surrender came
at CLOCK In the afternoon OF Janu-
airy !, when the Russian envoys ap-
the japanese lines south of
the village of Shuishiying They were
met by a japanese staff officer to whom
they delivered the letter Of General
Stoessei to General Nogi asking TO
have q time for parley arranged.
In this letter. as already known,
General Stoessel admitted the hope
lessness Of further continuing the
IN
surrender in order to save the lives )f
the remnant OF the brave garrison,
which had fought so long and so well.
provided suitable terms could be ar
ranged. He asked for Il conference to
settle these terms.
Major General Ijichi with q large
escort. left the Japanese headquarters
at IL O'Clock Monday morning and
rode to tae aopotnted place Shortly
before one O'Clock the Russian COM
missioners arrived. accompanied by a
"a alYary escort.
The conference took place with few
prelmnarieS and lasted until s
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