STOESSEL AND NOGI.
TALK IN A COTTAGE. WHY BUSSIA —TENT TO WAR. BALTIC FLEETS HOPELESS QUEST. (Received 5.13 aan.) LONDON. January 9. During a_ interview, with General Nogi in a cottage at Shui-hi. sear Port Arthur. Geaeral Stoessel expressed himself as being grateful for the _L_dness of the Mikado in alio vszisag the Russian ofi'ieers to re-tain their swords. Hs also acknowledged the coniiderateness shown by General No- I gi throughout the hostilities. The real cause of the war, he said. j 1 was that the Russians were unaware of the fighting qualities of j their opponents. j He considered that the turning- ' point of the defence was the ar- j 1 rival of the Japanese 11-inch guns. . He expressed genuine surprise on I I learning cf the defeat of General £ —opatkin. and added that it -as quite useless for the Baltic fleet to proceed to the Far East.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8, 10 January 1905, Page 5
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