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Show GENERAL STOESSEL DEAD. Famous Russian Commander Who Surrendered Porth Arthur to Japs. London. The death of Lieutenant General Anatole Mikhailovitch Stoes-sel, Stoes-sel, the defender of Port Arthur, is announced in a Petrograd dispatch. General Stoessel had suffered from paralysis for several months. 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 without with-out food, Stoessel surrendered the fortress to General Nogi. For this action he was condemned to death February 20, 1908, by a court, martial. This sentence, however, was commuted by Emperor Nicholas to ten years' imprisonment. He was released re-leased from confinement from the for. tress of St. Peter and St. Paul the following fol-lowing year by order of Emperor Nicholas. |