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203 Metre Hill advance artillery artillery fire assault attack attempt automatic quick-firers awful battery positions battle of Nanshan bayonets big East bombardment brigade caponier chamber capture casualties centre Chair Hill Chinese Wall close coast command counterscarp cover crest Dalny desperate dynamite grenades East Keekwan Hill East Panlung eastern fortridge eleventh division Emperor Emperor of Japan enemy enemy's entrance entrenched hill explosion fighting fleet flotilla force forthill fortress front garrison gorge gunboat harbour headquarters heavy hospitals howitzers hundred infantry investing army Japan Japanese Army Japanese artillery Japanese soldier Kinchow Liaotung peninsula line of defence machine guns military moat morning Nanshan naval night ninth division Nogi North Keekwan o'clock occupied officers parapets Port Arthur rear regiment retire ridge rifle fire Russian Samurai sand-bags sapping trenches Sevastopol shell fire ships shrapnel Shuishi Valley siege slopes splendid Stoessel succeeded Ta-ku-shan taken thousand torpedo trench-line troops warships West Urhlung wounded yards
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Page 430 - Your Excellency, — Judging from the general situation within the area of fighting, I think that further resistance is needless. In order, therefore, to avoid further loss of life, I ask you to negotiate for the terms of surrender. Should you accept my proposal, you will appoint a commissioner in order to discuss the terms and pro-ess of surrender, and fix a place of meeting between your commissioner and ours. " I avail myself of this opportunity to express my highest consideration. " General STOESSEL....
Page 447 - I allow each officer by the privilege reserved to him either to return to Russia under obligation not to take part in the present war, or to share the destiny of the men. I thank you and the brave garrison for the brilliant defence.
Page 91 - ... during the latter part of June and the early part of July, but leaves the latter part of the summer poorly occupied.
Page 447 - I have been forced to sign a capitulation concerning the surrender of Port Arthur. The officers and civil functionaries are allowed to wear arms and return to Russia, under obligation not to take part in the present war, but should they refuse to subscribe to the obligation, they are to remain prisoners of war. I apply to your Majesty for permission to grant the obligation demanded.
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Page 443 - Japanese officer of the same rank. While these points were under discussion a message arrived by telephone from General Nogi's Headquarters, to the effect that a serious fire had broken out in Port Arthur, and that some deserters from the forts had passed beyond the Russian lines.