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Show NO REASON FOR SURRENDER. General Stoesscl is Roasted by Correspondent Corre-spondent of London Times, Tlio London Times coriespondent at Peking, who has lotuiiiod fiom a visit at Port Aithur, doscilbes tho Impressions Impres-sions ho gntheied tbeio and says: Without seeing thorn. nobod could form any Idea of the stupendous .strength of the loits or the Incredible heroism displaced in tholr rapture No foielgn olllcer Is able to explain tho iciiHou for tlio bin render of Port Ar thur. Those who hnvo seen the condl tlon of the foi tress bollovo Hint no tnoio dlscicdltnble sunender Is recorded re-corded In hlstorv Theie were 20 000 nblo-bodled men capable of making a sortlo. liiindieds of olllcers, nil well nouiished, and plentj of ammunition, tlio Inrgost mag-iilno mag-iilno being untotiehed and full to tho oof witli nl kinds oi ammunition for mix nl guns Theie was, further, amplo food foi thiee montliB, even if no fresh supplies could bo lecelvod and, besides, be-sides, the wnteis aio teeming with (lsli Theie was an abundanro of wlno nnd medical comfoits, and large qiinn titles of fuel of all kinds All accounts agiee In condemning tbo majority of tho otileeis who reared the failure of comfort's nioio than of ammunition and agree thnt no man ever held a lesponsilde command who less deseivid the title of hero than General Stoebsel |