Show SURPRISE FOR STOESSEL thought kuropatkin was on his way to help port arthur A japanese staff officer who was bent kent to port arthur to inform general stoessel ol 01 the contents ot of the mes sage of the emperor of japan saying that the garrison should be treated with the greatest consideration says general stoessel a first inquiry was about the whereabouts of general ku ro I 1 said I 1 did not know ex acely but understood he was gome some where about mukden general stoessel was plainly in credulous at my statement that gen eral kuropatkin had been defeated and driven back toward mukden so I 1 produced maps showing him the po of the two armies near the shacke river and gave him details of Kuro kuropatkin s defeat with the loss of 50 or 60 men at which the russian general expressed amazement and quickly remarked that he be had been misled |