Retracing our steps, we reached Suishiyo not long after the conference commenced. The dolrgates me', I noticed, in th building, indeed in the R. and I witnessed the "ram work on the wounded only forty-eight hours before. Thu hou e, known to the Chinese as Li Chi Lan, I'am told (Plum Tree Cottage), is one of two which have had the rare good fortune to pass unscathed through the fierce bombardments of the pat few months. In an open close by, an extemporised grave the way, the correspondents of the " Daily Mail," Daily Telegraph," "Timex." Arsociated Bros," ©" Btandard" and "Sphere." were waiting, while half-a-dozen Cossacks were standing in the road at their hurriedly dispatched with a letter to General Stoeasel, followed, half an hour later, by another. One of these miseives had reference toa protest lodged by the senior Japanese delegate against any further destruction of property in Port Arthur. The negotiations were of; somembat protracted nature but an agreement was reached at 4.80 and messages were sent to the respective Commanders-in-Chief advising the conclusion of the negotiations and requesting x cessation of hostility-s. Shortly afterwards a telegram from General Stoessel to the Cear was transmitted to St. Petersburg through the Japanese authorities. The terms of the capitulation, briefly, were that the men, women and children and all civilians should /e allowed to return to Russin, that all officers should be released on parole and slowed to return home after pledging themselves not to tke up arms again during the continuance of the war; that the rauk and file should he taken to Japan as prisoners of of}and that all the wounded should be pan war 5 released when convalescent. The soldiers wore slowed to take with them their tents and personal effects. At the ut request of Surgeon-General Balashoff enorm: ns quantics of bandages and medical avd surgical supplies were dispatched at once to the captured town. 1 passed upwards of forty heavily-laden carts conveying Cross: supplies to the fortress 0 the following day (Std Jan.). Estimates given the Japanese delegates on the 2nd laced the number of soldiers and civilians in the place not wounded at 10,00 while the number of wown ed was said to be 20,'00. Thee figures were subsequently corrected, as will he seen. The delegates dined together and at 9 45, instructions having been received from the reswetive Headquarters, the articles of cxpitalation were signed.
REJOICINGS IN TRE JAPANESE ARMY, The scene on returning to camp that night was one to be remembered. larkness had set in before we reached the Wolf Range, ood two miles from Headquarters, and the ooditi therefore favourable for the there awaited ux. Along all the bills which bad formed the Russians', central line of defence, along the whole range from Bodia westward, in the encampments at the foot of the hil weird light skywards, whi came distant cries of "Banzai," rising from hundreds of throats. It was " strang to thy oppress vhich had so long reigned there, save when guns belched forth their deadly fi e or searchlights cast their soft grey glare. Long into the night the shouts went on, as camp after camp took up the glad cry of triumph and relief, the men weary of confi the dreary. disheartening duti and terrible siege.
One of the conditions' of the capitalation was that the two great eastern forte, Antzushan and Itsushan, should be handed over on the afternoon of the Srdae s guarantee of the due fulfilment of the terms of surrender. We were given to tinderstand that the officers wou'd set out from Suishiye to take over these forts, and being anxious to witness the cere: many Iset out in company with the " Daily. Mail" correspondent as soon as we could after leaving headquarters. On reaching: the southern end of the shell-destroyed town, we found a large group of Japanese artillery officers gathered on a knoll, listening to an address by Genaral Tajima. It was then 2.15. Some distance farther on we came to the Japanese advanced line.
A VISIT TO ANTZUSHAN, Receiving permission from the officer in command there, we pushed on and, after
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