PREMATURE SURRENDER.
CORRESPONDENTS' INDICTMEM. THE TROOPS INDIGNANT. A GENERAL MUTINY. (Received 7.47 a.m.) LONDON, January 17. The war correspondent* at Port Arthur are of one mind that the j-orrender of the position was disgracefully premature, and that resistance might have been protractjd for months. The Russian troops, it is stated on good authority, were highly indignant with what they regarded .is a shameful surrender, and this largely accounted for the final excesses. As soon aa they heard the fate of the town they threw their rifles and ammunition into the harbour, looted the warehouses, and refused to obey their officers. Disgraceful scenes ensued. Renter's correspondent with General Nogi, in declaring with the other correspondents that the surrender of Port Arthur -was unnecessary, adds that Geneva! Stoessel had no less than thirty-one thousand effective troops with whom to maintain the defence.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 18 January 1905, Page 5
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