The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-07
Desperate Assaults in
Which Bravery of
Forces at Port Ar
thur Is Paralleled
CAPITULATION
PROCEEDINGS
Japanese and German Officials Open
Conference and Decide on the Terms
of Surrender-The Casualties Re-
ported in the Engagement
By Associated Press.

Toxic, Nov. z, 9.15 P. M.-After des-
perate assaults, in which the Japanese
in the face of heroic resistance ri
vailed the bravery of their forces at
Port Arthur, Using Tau surrendered at
$40 o'clock this morning. At that
hour Governor Meyer Waldeck, follow
ing the hosting of white flags on the
forts, sent an officer with a flag of
truce to the Anglo-Japanese lines.
At clock this afternoon the Jap
snese and German officers opened a con-
ference at Moltke barracks when the
formalities of capitulating were con-
cluded
The Japanese officers pay unstinted
tribute to the bravery of the Germans
who fought tenaciously to the last. I'm
official reports are that the Germans
blew mp what was left of their forts
before surrendering and practically the
whole town is in ruins. A japanese
torpedo boat fotilla that entered the
hay found that nearly all the. ships n
been destroyed. .---
The Japanese o3salties
An official estih ,te flsces tho :
anese killed. in the MA ass t
night at So with 1872 wcuna "a,
British took an important par. IN b g
victory and two British officers were,
wounded, No statement of the German
casualties is available but it is believed
that they were heavy.
The Minister of War states that the
lessons learned from the siege were:
First, the destructiveness of the new
heavy guns that the Japanese used
from the first time, and second, the eff
fectiveness of the aeroplane observa-
tion service whereby the methods of the
defense were discovered. The prisoners
who will number, il is said, between
5000 and 5000, will be brought to
Japan.
The official version of the Anglo-Jap-
anese victory issued by the Japanese
war Office tonight follows:
Official Version of Victory
A general bombardment on October
81 permitted the occupation on Novem-
Der l of the first attacking position
36.o metre hill, 5000 feet south of
our previous position and bounded by
the ShiIHo and the Shunkas Ho. We en-
trenched and prepared for further ad-
vance and on November were pro-
gressed to a second position at Pompuga
on the FusausHo, where we met a gall.
ing fire, yet never flinched The heavy
artillery moved closed and co-operated
with and protected the infantry
son the night of November 6 we
occupied the third and final attacking
position in front of the entanglements
that screened the forts. General Yoshimi
Yamada S command advanced from the
center and forced its way through three
heavily wired defenses, crossed the in
tervening bitches and charging cour-
ageously captured the center fort. This
helped General Horiuchi occupy the
northerly fort.
"The right wing under General
Gehoyi and the British right center led
by Lieutenant Colonel Bernardiston
jointly charged and early on November
z completely occupied forts Iltis, Moltke
and Bismarck, forcing the enemy to fly
flags of surrender
Toxic, Nov. 7, $50 P. M.-Tokio
is celebrating to-day the fall of the
German fortress at Tsin-Tau after an
actual seige of a few days more than
three weeks.
1t was in the middle of September
that the real attack began although
preparations for the taking of the
German stronghold in Asia were begun
Immediately after war was declared
by Japan on August Is.
The final and successful attack on
Using Tau began shortly after mid
night Friday morning and the first in
road by the allied forces, which was
largely instrumental in the fall of the
place was the taking of the middle
fort of the first line of defense. This
was accomplished by brilliant charge
of infantry and engineers led by Gen
eral Yoshimi Yamada.
simultaneously with the charge of
General Yamada others were made, the
troops dashing forward with cries of
Bazai. Taitungchen, the fortifcation
on the east fell at 5.35 in the morning.
Chungchiawa was captured soon there
after with its two heavy cannon.
detachment of the first line oc-
cupied the Iltis, Bismarck and Moltke
forts at seven in the morning and then
the enemy hoisted the white flag on
the weather astronomical station ad-
joining the governors office. Another
white flag was hoisted on the coast
forts at the mouth of the Haipo at
7.30 o clock.
The closing hours of the siege of
Tsing-Tau and the fall of the fortress
there are briefly but dramatically de-
seribed in official reports by Vice Ad-
Continued TxyeIfth