OCR Text |
Show Surprised The Japs. The surrender of the fortress at the piesent time came as a sui prise even to the Japanese, as the dcspeiate determination de-termination and coinage of the Rus-sians, Rus-sians, even in the last assaults, indicated indi-cated that the stiuggle would be one to the blttei end. It was well known to the Japanese that the destination of the foits guauliug the main defenses of the western half of the eastern for tilled ridge mado the Investment of the city upon the east only a matter of a short time, despite the stiongest ciloits of or thcdoTcndeis, and also insuicd the segregation of the forts fuithn east upon the ridge. The steady advance of the besiegeis upon the west Itank, since the capture of 20.1 Metiehill.upthe valley fiom the shoics of Pigeon bay to the outsklits or the new town enabled them, with the eaptuie or the noith Tahanxow fort, to close hi upon the city fiom the west and to segregate the Chair hill roits so that tliej could be dealt with In detail. It was evident, thcicfoic, that despite de-spite the most deteimlned opposition tlie Investing armj could in a week cl onal das closely invest and dominate domin-ate Port Aruhur City, the ccntei ol the old svstem or the derense, so that the powciful foits both east and west would be Isolated. This fact, howcvei, did not wariant the assumption that the icsisting power of the position was at an end |