PORT ARTHUR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 220, 21 September 1904, Page 3

PORT ARTHUR.

AWFUL EXPERIENCES OF THE GARRISON, NURSES WILL NOT LEAVE.

LONDON, Sept. 19. Lieutenant Prince Radziwill has reached Che-foo in a junk with despatches from General Stoessel (commander at Port Arthur) for General Kuropatkin. He states that the temper of the belligerents is absolutely merciless. General Stoessel warned the garrison that they must resist to the last, since they will undoubtedly be massacred. Three hundred nurses were advised to leave, but declared that they preferred massacre to desertion. The stench caused by unburied corpses compels the sentries to constantly keep handkerchiefs, soaked in camphor, to their noses. PRINCE'S HARROWING STORY. NO QUARTER GIVEN ON EfTHER SIDE. LONDON, Sept. 19. As illustrating tilic ferocity displayed during tlie recent assault on Port Arthur, two companies of Japaivese hoisted the white flag. The Russians disregarded it, while the Japanese in the near, disapproving of surrender, shot down 600 of their comrades. The wounded were seen hopelessly appealing for succour for a week. Prince Radziwill saw Japanese with their teeth fastened in Russians' throats, while the Russians' fingers were gouging their opponents' eyes. Five thousand out of 8000 wounded have resumed duty. Prince Radziivil, states that otu the 14th he saw 2000 Japanese dead between the second and thii-d forts, but was unable to explain the cause of the slaughter.

A GUNBOAT SUNK. WHILE MEETING A BLOCKADE • RUNNER. LONDON, Sept. 19. The Standard states that the gunboat Gremiastchy, while leaving Port Arthur to meet a French vessel running the blockade, struck a mine and sank. The crew were saved.