Show STOESSEL SENTENCED TO DEATH lieutenant general condemned for his surrender at port arthur st petersburg lieutenant general stoessel was condemned to death thursday evening by a military court for the surrender or of port arthur to the japanese general fock who commanded the fourth east bast Siber siberian larr division of port arthur was ordered reprimanded for 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 stoessel were acquitted of the charges against them for lack jack of proof the court recommended that ther death sentence upon lieutenant general stoessel be commuted to ten years in a fortress and that be he be excluded from the service general voder president of the court read the sentences amid a tenso silence by dy a great effort of self control general stoessel maint alne I 1 rigid soldier like impassivity general also was seemingly unmoved but there were tears in the eyes of 0 general reiss |