Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1906 — DEATH PENALTY FOR STOESSEL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH PENALTY FOR STOESSEL.

Ilrro of Port Arthur h Held Rfsponslble for Surrender. The Czar’s, commission appointed to inquire into the surrender of Port Arthur to the Japanese during the war

has filed Its report. The committee proposes that General Stoessel, who was in command during the siege of Port Arthur, be sentenced to dentil, and that General Foek, who was a member of Stoessel's staff nnd urged his chief to Surren-

der, be condemned to twenty years’ confinement in the galleys. It is added that the commission considers that General Heuss sTfoiild be expelled fromTikv army and that Admiral Alexieff. former viceroy in the far east, should be reprimanded. The sentences, it is said, will be formalities and will not be executed.

Perhaps the only Russian reputation which stood the test of the war with the Japanese, in the estimation of the outside world, is that of General Stoessel. the heroic defender of Port Arthur, lie Served with distinction in the RussoTurkish war front 1877 to 1878. He was made a colonel in 1889 and a major general in 1899. The next year he became commander of the Ninth East Siberian Sharpshooters' Brigade.

For his service in the campaign against the Boxers in 1900 he was made a lieutenant general. In February. 1904. when the war with Japan broke out Stoessel was appointed commander at Port Arthur, and soon afterward was made commander of the entire army corps ordered to the defense of that fortress. In recognition of his gallant defense Emperor Nicholas conferred upon hint the title of aid de camp to the Czar and the German Emperor gave him the German Order of Poor le Merito.

GEN. STOESSEL.