Vossische Zeitung (4 I 04) in the leading article "Port Arthur".
— "Port Arthur has fallen; yet the honour of Russia and the glory of Russian arms remain intact in all their former greatness!" — thus exclaims the Novoye Vremya. But even if this sounded different from Count Schalenburg's report to Jena: "The King has lost a battle... Now calm is the first duty of the citizen," — the honour and glory of the defenders of Port Arthur are not enough to offset the effect of the incessant defeats of Russian arms. Hundreds of millions the tsarist state spent on Port Arthur, hundreds of millions on a proud fleet — all is destroyed. And destroyed are several tens of thousands of picked crack troops. This is a heavy blow for the people and for the tsar, who will now finally stop travelling about to present his soldiers with holy icons, while the Japanese soldiers receive maps as gifts....
... "It is childish when the French press speaks of an insignificant incident or even of Kuropatkin being relieved of one worry."...

(The Daily Mail of 4 I reports heart-rending scenes of grief in St. Petersburg and Moscow.)

[Translation.]

"Vossische Zeitung" (4 January 1905) in the leading article "Port Arthur".
— "Port Arthur has fallen; yet the honour of Russia and the glory of Russian arms remain intact in all their former greatness!" — thus exclaims the "Novoye Vremya". But even if this sounded different from Count Schalenburg's report to Jena: "The King has lost a battle... now calm is the first duty of the citizen," — the honour and glory of the defenders of Port Arthur are not enough to offset the effect of the incessant defeats of Russian arms. Hundreds of millions the tsarist state spent on Port Arthur, hundreds of millions on a proud fleet — all is destroyed. And destroyed are several tens of thousands of picked crack troops. This is a heavy blow for the people and for the tsar, who will now finally stop travelling to present his soldiers with holy icons, while the Japanese soldiers receive maps as gifts....
... "It is childish when the French press speaks of a trivial incident or of Kuropatkin being relieved of worries about Port Arthur"....