Show STOESSEL SENTENCED TO DEATH lieutenant general condemned for his surrender at port arthur st petersburg lieutenant vencial stoessel was condemned to death thursday day evening by a military court for the sui sti render trender of port arthur to the japanese general fock who mho commanded command ed the fourth east siberian division of port artlia nas ordered reprimanded foi fat a disciplinary offense which was not connected with the sur render and general acting commander of the fortress and major general reiss chief of staff to gen eral era stoessel were acquitted of the charges against them for lack of proof the court le ie commended that the death sentence upon lieutenant gen eral stoessel be commuted to ten deais imprisonment in a fortress and that lie he be excluded filin the service general voder president of the court read the sentences amid a tense silence by a great effort of self control cOit rol general stoessel maintained impassivity gendvil also was seemingly unmoved but there were viere teats in the ebes 03 es of general reiss |