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Show ' GENERAL STOESSEL DEAD. 1 Famous Russian Commander Who Surrendered Porth Arthur to Japs. London. The death of Lieutenant . General Anatole Mikhailovitch . Stoes-r Stoes-r sel, the defender - of Port Arthur, is ) announced in a Petrograd dispatch. I General .Stoessel had suffered from I paralysis for several months. 1 General Stoessel was famous as the ! commander of the Russian troops at . Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese war. After he had held out there for months against the furious onslaughts of the apanese his ammunition supply exhausted and his men virtually with-, with-, out food, Stoessel surrendered the fortress to General Nogi. . For this action he was condemned . to death February 20, 1908, by a court-j court-j martial. This sentence, however, was 5 commuted by Emperor Nicholas to , ten years' imprisonment. He was re-r re-r leased from confinement from the for-, for-, 'tress of St. Peter and St. Paul the following fol-lowing year by order ot Emperor Nicholas. |