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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JANUARY

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1908.

TRIAL

ORT ARTHUR'S SURÉENDEN."

Gen. Stueasel has at last. been gut on trial, for the surrender of Port Arthur; and, judging from the tone of the official act of accusation, be will be condemned, Fris condemnation will certainly not be disapproved of by the Russing Preis, for Stödtet's relations with Ruising war engrespondents in Port Arthot were never cordial. Once, while watching from a hilltop ont of the earlier soities of the he caught sigt of cvilian similarly

employed, atome dis'ance off, and im mediately sent an officer to drive him away.. Why not allow him to remain?" asked Col. Artem eff, the editor of the semi-official “Novi Krai," who happened to be present." He

wants to see what's going on. He's a cor respondent. "What shouted Stoessel, in a tone of genuine regret, “Why didn't you tell. me that earlier. I'd have had the brut e pitched field-folemast down the hill.*

Such being stoessel's feelings towards the Prest, ii pot surprising that the Press is far from being distressed in the least by the deplorable plight in which the ex-Governor of | Port Arthur- now finde himself, in fact, the Press campaign against Braessel is so strong fthat it is overdose, the trifling charges that are made against him being so numerous that one lones sight of the main accusations, For

insinace, both the official act of accusation and the newspapers condemn his severity to wards the Novi. Kral" newspaper of Port-

The Cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that Arthur; but, though I was one of the editora of of any port in the world.

Telephone: Nos, 376, 100, or 081.

Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," Dodes A. B. G. 4th and 5th Edt. Liebers, Baatta,! AI, and Watkins.

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that paper myself, I must cooless thai judging from the unceremonions, manner in which war respondents are generally treated in time of war, it is absurd (especially for Russian Govern, event officials), to ra,ard Stoessel's severity to wards the Press as an-uppardonable crime

STORASUL'S REAR, NSIBILITY.

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th foated whenever he came into contact with The Japanese, and since; therefore, something sust have been wrong with the whole Daya! and military system of the Pussians, or, with the spirits of the tro pt or with-something else over which the commanders had no control.

Even so, it is impnazible, after reading the vidence in this cast, not to conclude that Stuckel could have held out at least a week

Inger; and by doing so he would not only have put himself technically in the right, but might have ma 'e the Japanese lose the battle

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it, he could not have brought his artillery over the ice, and his advance, as well as that of, Nogi, would have been fatally delayed by the salt ground

The last meeting of the "Council of Defence"†T began at 6 p.m. on 19 Dec., and Stoessel asked the members to each express his opinion as to whether the fortress could hold out longer. Bixteen members of the council thought it cold, and only Stoesitt and his supporters Fock, Rea, and Dmlirevsky were dubious, When the meeting came to an end Stoessel sent the Tsar a telegram in which he said, writing as if the messago was from the Council of De ence and not from himself personally, that "the fortress can only hold out a few days. We have hardly any shells-left. I will take

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streets, curvy has made great ravages among the garrison. bave under arms at present from ten to eleven thousand men, but they are nat in good health,”.

AN UNFORTUNATE DECISION,

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The other charges against Stoessel are that he refused in bard over the command to Smir. neff when ordered by Kuropackla to do so; that before Past Arthur was finally cut off ho neg fected many opportunities of provisioning t better and that he lied to the Tear in telegrams describing his own bravery,' 'Slotsjel was not a traitor; but he was an incompetent officer, so swollen with the idea of his own dignity and

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his strongest motives for surrendering Font Arthur was the fear that if he let things go so far as to end in hand-to-hand combat in the narrow, aticals of Old Town, his personal digolty might suffer that he might be knocked. down and have his pockels picked, get kicked, |-

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