The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-20
GEN. STOESSEL IS
SENTENCED TO DIE
Brave Defender of Port Arthur
Must End Long Career in
Tragic Manner.
PENALTY OF THE OTHERS
COMMISSION RECOMMENDS THAT
FOCk SPEND TWENTY YEARS
IN THE GALLEYS AND THAT
REUSS BE DISMISSED.
Publishers Press1


mission appointed to inquire into the
surrender of Port Arthur to the jap
anese during the war, filed its report
The commission proposes that Gen.
eral Stoessel. who was in command
during the seige OF Port Arthur, be
sentenced to death and that General
Fock, who was member of Stoes-
sells staff and urged his chief to sur
render, be condemned to 20 years
confinement III the gaileys. The com
mission considers that General keuss
should be expelled from the army
and that Admiral Alexieff, former
viceroy in the far east, should be
reprimanded.
1t is probable that the sentence will
be carried out.
Private adviceS received here say
that so people were killed by a charge
of dragons on a meeting at Kech-
erovk in the province of Tambro.
Sabres aud pistols were used freely
in dispensing the crowds.
Belief that adoption by the lower
house of parliament Of proclamation
to the nation, on the agrarian ques-
ton, will precipitate the long brewing
conflict and plunge the country into
civil war, is profound. All hope of
reconciliation between parliament and
the government is vanishing and the
government is evidently preparing to
take up the gauge of battle when it is
formally thrown down.
At council held at Peterhof the
camarilla came out strongly in favor
Of dissolving parliament but, accord
ing to the latest information, the en-
peror hesitated and at the moment of
adjournment refused to agree to a
dissolution, though his final decision
was lostponed.
Nevertheless, the more moderate
faction of the Constitutional Demo
Gratis comprehending that the govern
ment can hardly avoid the issue,
shrink from making the appeal to the
country. They seriously believe that
the advocates of a dissolution of par
lament, realizing that making the
appeal would be equivalent to a dec
laration of civil war, count on the ac
tive intervention of Austria and Ger
many sending troops across the Dor
der to aid in the suppression of an
agrarian uprising, should the Russian
government formally request it. The
agreement between Germany and
Austria as to Poland created a ire
mendous sensation. 1t Is stated that
the decision of the two neighboring
powers was based on fear that con-
fiscation of property in Russia would
constitute a danger to them
At a caucus of the Constitutional
Democratic party before the proposed
address to the people came up for its
second reading in the lower house of
parliament, hopeless split de.
veloped. The moderate faction tried
to induce its followers to vote against
the address. Professor Miliukoff and
others vainly appealed to M. Vinaver,
who headed the insurgents, insisting
that the party would be wrecked if it
failed to keep abreast of the radical
sentiment Of the country.
In the Hobbies of the house the sole
topic Of speculation was the possible
dissolution of parliament. The Ire
vailing conviction was that the gov
eminent abandoned the idea Of
compromise when it found that with
parliament it was not a question of
men but of principles. A number
ventured to predict that Friday may
see the Tauride palace in the posses
sion of troops.
The Rech which joins in the appeal
to parliament not to take a step
which might seem to warrant the gov
eminent in asserting that parliament
is attempting to usurp the executive
power, says that if the government
adopts the desperate expedient of
calling in foreign troops to put down
a civil war the result will not be the
same as in 1S49, when a Russian
army saved the Hapsburg dynasty.
The paper declares that the people
will rally under the banner of parlia-
ment as they did in England, under
that of the English parliament at the
time of Charles I, with probably q
similar result, namely, the loss of the
kings head"
Feeling which has been at high
pitch for months, is now strained to
he utmost