The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-03
I'LL 0F PORT lRTR0R
(Continued from First Pagel.

s NNOdtAiluSu lIOlil F lISL EdSGJ. erals. Our men cannot move. They sleep standing. They cannot see the bayonets at their breasts. We can or der. but they cannot obey
 Then you generals fight. said Stoessel, clenching his fists.
 He seemed fanatical on the subject but finally he was brought to see req son by the insistence of his subordi-. mates. Admirals Lochinsky and Wiren, Generals Smyrnoff and Fock and many ! others, sometimes with broken voices, urged the step which all dreaded so long.
 T am sure Port Arthur would have sought terms a month ago had it not been for General Stoessel, who with bulldog tenacity steadily refused to permit such action to be taken. He had told his emperor that he would never, surrender and he meant to keep his word.
 The greatest loss suffered by Port Arthur occurred fortnight ago when Major General Kondratenko was killed. Officers and men alike regarded him as the brightest star in Port Arthurs fir- mament. When his death became known, the fall in the spirits of the ] soldiers was plainly visible. General Kondrateriko was seated in the easement of certain fort discuss ! ing with seven other officers the best way of counter mining against the Japanese, when an eleven-inch shell burst killing everybody in the case { ment.
 General Nogi has taken Port Ar j thur with his artillery and his tunnels. His rife bullets were seldom found to < be of any use.
 We constantly endured a bonlbard- ] ment fiercer than any in history. The Japanese periodically assaulted and then, if repulsed, they calmly resumed their bombardments
 tsWe who came here to-day do not know the terms of surrender suggested 8I by General Stoessel to General Nogi nor the answer to them, having left Port Arthur even before the messenger s had been dispatched The general i'm
 pression, however, is that Stoessel has
 proposed that the army shall go free
 and that he alone be made prisoner. I Even that concession seemed to
 wrench out the sturdy old mans heart
 .sWhether or not the negotiations ter
 minate in an agreement on terms of
 surrender, 1t is certain that Port Ar thur is doomed. as you say the Asso- \ ciated Press predicted two months ago s We still have some ammunition and N some guns at Liaoti mountain, but that
 mountain is not adapted for the best I defenses from the land side and the \ Japanese would find its capture easier si than the other tasks they have at- tempted. Tigers Tail peninsula has to be similarly viewed, and Golden Hill
 has been without ammunition for three I months.
 .Since reaching Chefoo have seen $ that attempts have been made to make #l 1t appear that Stoessel alone wished tc
 surrender, the other generals desiring
 to continue the fight. This is a lie
 and it is based on personal dislike ot 5i Stoessel
 Tt is a simple story. Had the am l munition held out, the fortress would ! have held out indefinitely. For months i we held Port Arthur by bayonets alone I until flesh and blood could no no more 1 When a man fell there was none other I to replace him. Thus the garrison was l gradually worn down. TWo-Hundred- . and-three Metre hill alone cost us 5,o0( ! men. The capture of that hill was the ! beginning of the end.
 .sThe Japanese artillery was excel- \ lent1y served. They had four hundred 3 guns bearing on 2o3-Metre Hill. They l advanced their trenches while the artil- l lery was smelling the Russians out with I a shower of metal, and then occupied ] the Russian positions.
 3 .In personal combat the Japanese was greatly inferior to the Muscovite. One Russian could take care of three I Japanese in bayonet fight, and some of our soldiersN have records vastly I higher than that. The Japanese are I good brave soldiers although have 1 little liking for them.
 I Tt cost the Japanese 80,000 men to take the fortress. while some say they have lost over 100000. The number of our own dead is not known, even to the high officers.
 .The fighting since August has been
 rnerciless When Rihlung Mountain
 was taken five hundred men occupying < casemate were not able to emerge, So \ quickly came the rush of the Japanese, The Russians tried to emerge by the
 use of their bayonets in the face of ma. z chine gun fire Thus every man died trying to resist machine guns with bay onets alone. The Japanese did not give
 them a chance, to become prisoners, but the men would have preferred death T any way. gS aT#
 Realize the end! Picture fort
 strewn with shells, and you have a pie
 ture of the end of Port Arthur.
 "One peculiar incident of the siege was at Fort No. B where for three , months the Japanese occupied one part