The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-01-04
FALL OF PORT ARTfUR!
Garrison Surrenders, Woin Odr
byTen Months 5iege.

General Stoessel on SUNDAY AsNY'
For Meeting to Arrange Terms o'
capitulatlon and Late Monday AZ
ernoon the Japanese Terms W'Fe
Agreed to by the Commissioners
Port Arthur, whose hills fpF ipr
months run red with the blooi f the
bravest of two warlilke natidnh pas
at last succumbed to the fieFf yen
acity Of the Japanese attack. 4
General Stoessel, most stubb'rn IN
csrrying out the win OF his sovereign
has seen the advance Of the esicg |
Ing army gain in momentum iani en- |
ergy until to hold out longer would
have been crime against humanity.
The conditions of the surrend@ arell
not yet known but in all quartrs II 4
Is anticipated that they are suthfas am
honorable soldier may accept fom q
brave and victorious enemy. "
The authorities at ST. PetersburgI
in the absence of direct Official neysl
from General Stoessel that Port AZ
thur has surrendered, have not per.
n.itted the news to become public.
Emperor Nicholas is in-the south OF
Russia and his ministers are tpr thel
time being in the dark as to what dis
patches have been sent TO him from
the front.
Toxic was the scene Of rejoicing
people Of all ranks finding in the out
come compensation for all the sacri
fice Of life and money that was en-.
tailed In the 10 months siege
VIII Surrender Make For Pefe7
To what extent the fall Of Pot Arr
thur will make for a restoration 1
peace Is an open question. Th4e IS
an encouraging note in tho expfes.
sion by Baron Hayashi Japanese min
ister at London, of the nope that IN
scme way 1t will facilitate final
peace" though the pacific note Is not
perhaps lost in the latter words Of the,
minister which call attention to rhf
fact that the besheging armg Will noR
be free to go north, where they WI
be an Offset to the reiniorcemenls
| General Kuropatldn has- been feceN'
Ing from Russia since the battle pi
Sbakhe.
The spirit of the Russians may %
judged by the statement df the sci
retary of the embassy at Lyndon tnt
the campaign will be renewed YIN
| fresh vigor In the spring, ann tnat ue
nation will not be content to permit
Port Arthur to remain in the h~nespi
the Japanese NJ
Both In Paris and In Lmdon pS
opinion is hat the squadpn mier
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky wllcn
started from Libau for the Far bas'
three months ago will have 10 retacs
Its way home, as adherencefto tnf or
iginal plans would invite disaster Elths'
out probability Oh effecting P uof
with the warships at present VI
harbor at vladivostoh.
That Japan may not bel PEE y ttq
to retain possession 6 Port !
without a dispute is shown
fact that Parist newspapers are k
ready reviving the claim made in ISe
that the holding of that position cor
handing the Eastern seas by the lar
pnese would be q. menace to Eurdpea
powers ifl
Has Cost Russia Her Entire Fleet
The defence Oh the position vhi,i
fell to her as a heritage after tht
Chinese-Japanese. war, has cost nus
sia practically her entire feet m
those waters. Her ships lie from port
Arthur's inner basin to Chemulp, 4,
Corea, and along the shantung p,bin.
sula, battered huiks OF dnce MN, Il
|. ;essels. or ignomniously, Ns1uatled,l
are interped in neutral Chilesohar'
bors.
Save the three q four cruisertnd
some lesser craft hat lie in thhce
bound tdfuge Of sladivostok,
warshIp h<a~ fies the ~,
The Waters Of the
And Japan, too, has .ad
In the long 4drawn ont o.
Mines havss1ttusk from Adm
gc's fleet list dsany hlle ship
smaller vessels since tEe mornil
Feb. s when hd hurled'tis feet
Russian ships. in Port Arthur's r
The siege Of Pdt Arthur propt
dates from May 27,s when after ems
ing the first army landed,by the
anese at Pitsewo, Stoessel was for
hack fro1 the ned Of the Kwantu
neninsrjh. The Japapese landing v
N IN May 5 and the Russsah co
Wted to give battle. at b
line Of defences. J
ement was a severe q
Russians back to I
afences of
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