| Show I I Hf O Of i rORT ARTHUR General Stoessel Denies That the Fortress J I Was Surrendered S Prematurely INDIGNANT AT FALSE REPORTS Were Not Able Bodied Met Men lo l It The Thc Place Ilace Nor Were Officers Officer Well Wel elt Nourished hed AMMUNITION WAS EXHAUSTED Garrison Could Coul Not ot Have lave Held led Out Another Minute It Would Have lv Been Murder Colombo Colomo Ceylon CoYlon Feb Keb 4 Gen Stow nel tuel tI the tha th former tanner commander of o Port Ar Arthur Arthur thur and lie tha Russian om er anti ami others other him hll arrived h here r today toay from Japan JUlIan by hy way wa of oC Shanghai on oi onboard al board the Limo French line lino Hn steamer Aus Australian In II Ii an In Interview with tho the correspondent cores n dent lent of at the tho Associated Press the gen general ge eral cral ral denied tho the statements published puhl hee to 10 the tho effect that Port Arthur wa was 1 sur surI I prematurely He lie le was especially e poc ally II Indignant at nl the tha th statement made malle by ly a I newspaper ne paper that there were at atthe atthe the time time hue of oC the tho surrender abut bodied men ien In ii Port Arthur capable of or making a 0 sortie sorte hundreds of officers nil all 01 well velI wel nourished plenty plent of oC ammunition Ion tion ton tho the largest being un untouched Untouched touched and till full to the lie roof root and aid and that tha there thero was an ample supply of oC food too for tor three oven oen If it no ito tl supplies were ore received The general character characterized these th e statements nt an as al unjustified limiti not hot supported by facts Col Gol liaise Relas Hela who was wan Wil among the lie said ald of oC tho he surrender of oC the fortress Tho ho garrison could not have hae held out a IL longer U It I would have hove be b been n murder Only 15 S roubles ruble remained In the military out of at ut lit lt the commencement of lie the siege sl le hundred men mn were dying dally daily at tho hospitals principally from rep wounds and ad scurvy IOUry General Kondrat Kondratenko Kondratenko enko was waa the hero wa her of oC the siege Mege Co Col Hells further declared that the tho e were admirable a soldiers sol ler but poor por In tn the lie use uso UK of at tho the bayonet bayone td eul 1 With Wih tho lie and nd French lea Gen and tind others of at his party will ivill wi at Port Por Said for Odessa ESTIMATE ESTI fAE OP OI Berlin Fob Feb Col Gaedke for or Ui the time since his return from the tar far east te where he was war correspondent for tor the tho writes his opinion of at hen den a I through and through h honorable man benevolent personally brave admirable in ha the tho quiet qu et of oC hits his hil work worl room rm simple In hum bis hil tastes and nn excellent administrator lacks says Rn 1 Col 01 Gaedke that bitt glnn that tiit penetrates the tho or a situ situation quick juick k decision Immediate flon lul cor coy relation IRton of ot beaus antI and before all al hut tha th unsympathetic will wi that lint alone Ilone I In war var that without companion uses tIme the bottles bodies and souls of oC his hl men ins In tak ing lag their last and best bent he t to compass compas vie vic victory Ic Ictor tory tor Such men en nfl as I ore ae not nt few In the tIme Russian army mind and their qualities attach the tint soldier to his hll flag fIK limit hut they do not nol win wit victories Iuro Kuro nt mit lt burdened his bile mind with wih placing Individual regiments bat bitt battalions and nn batteries and anti lo loss H thereby by t conception of M the th whole Col oi 01 regards MB as I over oer cautious and Anel concludes J No leader lenrer Is so s bad ns as ni h hue be who ho will wi not nt take a 1 link II k I |
