Logan Republican | 1905-01-14 | Page 2 | Surprise for Stoessel

SURPRISE FOR STOESSEL. Thought Kuropatkln Was on His Way to Help Port Arthur. A Japanoso stnff officer, who was sent to Port Arthur to Inform Gonoral Stocssel of tho contents of the messngo mes-sngo of tho emperor of Japan saying that tho garrison should bo troated with tho greatest consideration, says: "General Stoessel's first Inquiry was about tho whereabouts or General Kuropatkln. Ku-ropatkln. I said I did not know exactly, ex-actly, but understood ho wns somo-whero somo-whero about Mukden. "Gonoral Stocssel was plainly Incredulous In-credulous nt my statement that General Gen-eral Kuropatkln hnd boon doreateJ and driven buck toward Mukden, so I produced maps, showing him tlio po-slton po-slton or tho two armies near tho Shahko river and gavo him details or Kuropatkln'8 dercnt, with tho loss of 50,000 or 00,000 men, at which tho Russian genernl oxpiessed amazement and quickly romarked that ho had been misled."