STOESSEL AND PREMATURE SURRENDER.
: LONDON, February la. A representative of the "Standard" has had an interview with General Stoessel at Port Said. The general said there was no truth in the statements of the correspondent of the "Times" at Port Arthur that when the capitulation took place taiere were no signs of the garrison having suffered privations, and that the food would have sufficed for another two months. He had had the authority of the Crar since September to surrender whenever it became needful to do so. The garrison, he said, had never numbered 25,000,' and "when the surrender took place there were only 5978 effectivai. What little ammunition remained was of poor quality.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 17 February 1905, Page 5
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114STOESSEL AND PREMATURE SURRENDER. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 17 February 1905, Page 5
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