PORT ARTHUR.
— * — I DEFENCE OF GENERALS ON TRIAL. ■
BY TELEGRArn—rRESa ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. 1 (Rec. Feb. 19, 10.39 p.m.) ••• •../ St. Petersburg, February 19. The verdict of the Port Arthur court- : martial is expected to be given to-day. ■ General Stoessel assumed ontiro responsibility for the surrender, declaring, that if that, required • expiation by blood, let it bo his alono. . . ■ . Port Arthur, he said,..could only havo lield-out-a few hour3'longer-with a.sacrifice of 20,000 lives. — ■' -..■ , General Rouss- declared that ..'ho merely obeyed orders. If that was wrong, he declined to suo for morcy.'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 7
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87PORT ARTHUR. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 7
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