| Show READY TO SOLDIERS AT PORT ARTHUR HAVE HAD ENOUGH but G cral St oese 1 though confined to hospital issues order orders to men to die at post posts rather than surrender lagut advices from port part arthur are to the effect that a round wound received by general stoessel Stoss sel has necessitated hia his confinement in th hospital that ho he re fuses to relinquish tha th a command of the orleon and that he haa issued or ders to tho the troops to die at their posts rather than surrender it Is said that tho the spirit of tho the russian troops has been dampened by continuous urk tin thi lack of supplies aupp lles and tho the hopelessness of their ability to make any successful defense of the fortress it Is aid said further that many of tho the russian soldiers are ro ready to surrender but that they are kept at their posts by officers who threaten them with revolvers and that several soldiers who were suspected ol 01 a desiro desire to desert have been teen shot as a warning to other would be deserters the japanese now believe that tho the garrison has almost reached the limit of human endurance spies and russians who havo have eur sur rendered report that rations in tho the fortress hae been reduced tho wounded found by the japanese are emaciated russian artillery shells partly fillock with wood and which would nut explode havo have been found this shows that the russians are short of material for making heavy ammunition the capture of the eastern fortified fortl fled ridge will mean the burr ader of the fortress in a couple of weeks unless the garrison there retires to the isolated fort this teems improbable homeier ho Teer neier and ani cold weather eather and the lack of food and render desperate resistance unlikely |
