WHY HE WAS RELEASED.
ALL THE FORTS SURRENDERED.
STRENGTH OF KUROPATKIN.
NOT MORE THAN 250,000.
EARLY ENGAGEMENT UNLIKELY
[N.Z. Press Ab&ociATiox. —Copyright.]
Port Arthur is now actually as well a? formally in the hands of the Japanese, all the forts having been duly handed over. It is stated by the "Daily Mail" that the delay occasioned to the Balt.jp leet by the Dogger Bank outrage W ho Czar to release Stoessel from hi? iromise to "fight to thn dt-ath." and to ds leavinp to the jjener"!'* indjrnieirt the leeision as to surrender. Typhns fovrr ;ud other infectious cyseases asc ramiant in t.bo surrendered town. <k>neral vopi's rrtUTns show a remarkable dp- ■ Tease —though not r>n a level with arlier and more highly -coloured reports —in the strength ot the jrarrison since be bejrinxiing of the siege. With regard o the main movement, the "Times"" nilitary critic the two interesting itatements that an immediate encounter s unlikply, and tha.t forces lumber no more than a quarter of a nilliou men.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1905, Page 5
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