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Show II oo HADLEY AT THE SCENE 1 OF SLAUGHTER "Bert" Hadley, writing to the Standard Stan-dard from Port Arthur, one of the Bldetrlps on his journey with Dr. H B. Forbes around the world, describes : the battlefields on which Russian and Japanese fell by ten? of thousands during the siege of tho famous forti- I fications near the southern terminus of the Siberian railroad. General Nogi was at the head of the attacking forces and General Stoessel commanded the pent-up soldiers of the czar The siege continued over a yeei and In that time, during the repeated re-peated assaults, the Japanese lost 22 . II S3 men. according to official record, but Hadle sars those on the ground Place the loss to Nogl's army at 1(H) -000 or over. Reports sent out by the war correspondents were to the effect that the Japanese, In their earlier attacks, at-tacks, were slaughtered, whole regi- P ments being sacrificed In the taking of some of the outer works of the fortifications for-tifications But this all proves that the Japanese had the indomitable will end courage of true soldiers Nogl was the General Grant of the Ear East. Any man of less resolution would have failed to have broken down the Russian defense. And vet poor old General Stoessel. after withstanding with-standing the unnerving roar of the I I enemy B guns for a year and making a defense so heroic to cause all Japan to mourn tts'doud, finally was courtmartlaled by his government and thrown into prison, because, with men exhausted, be mrt the inevitable by surrenderee to the overwhelming odds that were against him. Such is too often the Ingratitude of (hose who beine responsible for war, and i viewing it from a 8?fe distance, feel j called upon to write their disappoint-I ments in proclamations of censure. |