THE WAR.
PORT ARTHUR.
GENERAL STOESSEL INTER VIEWED.
General Stoessel, on being interviewed by a representative of the Daily Express, said that uulU October he had great hopes tb.. the Baltic fleet would relieve Port Arthur. The Council of War unanimously agreed to surrender. Other officers declared that Admiral Alexieff, late Russian Viceroy in the Far East, was a coward for quitting Port Arthur, and that Ukhtomsby was a coward for returning all the regimental and naval flags which had: been conveyed to Chifu. None of the ships had been scuttled, but all were sunk by the Metre Hill guns. Frightful excesses were committed after the surrender, and the officers’ lives imperilled. Ultimately, the men were starved into submission before the Japanese entry. Only enough ammunition was left to resist one more general assault.
AN INCIDENT OF THE PORT ARTHUR SIEGE.
Russian sources are responsible for the story that gases from Japanese mines which exploded during the attack on Fort Fungshunshan collected in an underground passage, and fired a magazine, causing the entombment referred to in the cables on January 2nd.
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Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1905, Page 3
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181THE WAR. Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1905, Page 3
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