Show IF STOESSEL IS GUILTY Of or course courso General Stoessel has achieved a certain heroism in the eyes of the world H iI defended a beleaguered beleaguered beleaguered be be- city very stubbornly against a 3 resistless enemy and yielded yield yield- ed to what all men know was the In in- evitable And now that ho he is on trial for or his life the world is impatient at athis athis athis his accusers and his judges They didn't fi fight hL Ho He did And the tho world Is 19 very er much Inclined to acquit him But if iC General Stoessel did tho I thin things s charged he should be pun pun- I Ishad Ho He is accused of or disobeying his superior officer of abandoning I uncompleted and necessary defenses of ot permitting his officers to Insult other oUter officers and of or sending false reports to the commanding general If Ir he Is guilty he must be punished The matter of at his heroism In the defense defense de do- of Port Arthur is not relevant I One may regret that such a blundering blundering blun blun- dering hopeless lot of or bullies should sit in judgment on a a soldier But j even eYon n a Russian must obo oboy orders Inthe in inthe the arm army |