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Show Death Preferable to Surrender. "Port Arthur is my grave," in the despondent message wired by Gen. Stoessel of the Russian forces in the Orient, to the Czar of the Russias. Gen. Stoessel has instructed the garrison at l'ort Arthur that a glorious death is preferable to capitulation capit-ulation and his message to the "Little Father' is in line with his instructions to his men. - Tho Japanese Japa-nese have been pressing the Russians in front of the beleaguered garrison back until the little brown men are almost within sight of the walls of the fortress. fort-ress. Gen. Stoessel apparently has little hope of any relief reaching him in time to drive the Japanese off and is preparing to meet death with his men rather than submit to a surrender that would, even under the most favorable conditions, be humiliating to the proud and haughty Slav. The idea of bending the neck to the yoke of a nation long regarded as pagan is not to be borne. |