The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-06
END NOW WRITTEN OF MOST
DRAMATIC INCIDENT OF
MODERN TIMES.
NO EQUAL IN MODERN WAR
STORY OF OPERATIONS is ONE OF
REPEATED FIGHTING ar
LAND AND SEA.


months run. red with the blood of the
bravest of two warlike nations. has at
last succumbed to the fierce tenacity
of the Japanese attack.
| Exhausted by months of almost con-
slant fighting, decimated by disease
and casualties and hopelessly sealed
in its rocky fortress, the gallant gar.
rison has yielded to it's gallant be-
siegers and the end is now written of
the most dramatic war incident of
modern times.
At 9 o'clock Sunday night Gen. Nogi,
commanding the Japanese army Of in
vestment, received from the Russian
general, Stoessel, note saying that
he found further resistance useless
and asking for meeting to arrange
terms OF capitulation. The note was
simple and direct and the Japanese
general Immediately named commits
sioners to confer with representatives
of the Russian commander. They met
| at noon yesterday to arrange the con-
ditions of surrender. The negotiations
were concluded at 1880 o'clock.
Nature of Terms Not Known.
The nature of the terms agreed
upon is not yet known, but dispatches
from Toxic indicate that they will be
of the most magnanimous character.
The emperor of Japan himself, through
the chief of the imperial staff, has
given public his expression that Gen.
Stoessel has rendered commendable
service to his county in the midst o;
| difficulties" and that it is his wish
chat military honors be shown him.
The siege and the defense of Rus
sia's stronghold in the Far East have
been marked by bravery, gallantry
and desperation unequaled in modern
warfare, and hardly excelled in mill
tary history. The story of the opera
lions around Port Arthur is one of
repeated fighting, both by land and
sea, of the most desperate and thrill
ing character. Isolated instances of
heroism that would have set the world
| ringing under less, have been dwarfed
by the generally magnificent
Conduct of Both Forces.
BY sea there have been torpedo boat
| dashes of superb recklessness and big
ships. have plowed through mine
fields with heroic disregard to give
battle or in wild efforts to escape.
By land the Japanese have hurled
themselves against positions declared
to be impregnable. They have faced
and scaled rocky heights crowned with
batteries and covered with defenders,
suffering losses that military experts
| say would have appalled, any European
army.
In the doomed fortress it's people
have lived under rain of shell and
shrapnel. Scanty rations, besieged on
| every side, knowing that hope of sue
cess or escape was vain, the garrison
has fought with stubbornness that
has evoked the admiration of the
| world. They met the untiring assaults
of the Japanese with grim valor that
gained every praise of their foe, and
the fighting has been waged
With ReIentiessness
that often refused truces to bury the
| dead and collect the wounded
Over the corpse-f!led trenches men
have fought hand-to-hand with cold
| steel and dubbed guns, and at short
range have hurled at each other hand
grenades filled with high explosives.
The whole story is one of undaunted
courage and sublime bravery.
What Port Arthur has cost in hui
man life and in money no estimate of
even approximate correctness can be
made. The losses have been appall-
ing. 1t has been reported that in some
engagements leading up to the recent
capture of 203-Meter hill, the attacking
force lost as high as 40 per cent of the
force engaged, while the garrison S
losses, OF which no word has come,
must have been frightful.