The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-27
THE ONCE FAMOUS RUSSIAN
FIGHTER is GETTING ION
HIS FEET"
MAKING BIG FORTUNE
Has Entered the Tea Trade and His
Friends Expect Him to Be
Millionaire in a
Few Years.

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commanding a fortress to selling tea
5 a long stretch. After being shut up
n Port Arthur, made a hero of. dis
raced at a moments notice, accused
If treaehery and sentenced to ten
ears Imprisonment in fortress al
most within earshot of the imperial
palace. ex-Gen. Stoessel has made a
pmcky attempt to retrieve his for
tunes by entering large firm of tea
merchants at Moscow. If rumors are
70 be believed, he is far more sue
eessful in commerce than he was in
his military career in Manehuria
And yet Gen. Stoessel could not
have been a bad soldier, for he rose
from the ranks, and that is harder in
Russia than anywhere else. Many
disliked him for it, and there is lit
tie doubt that intrigue had much to
10 with his being hauled over the
Goals about the surrender of Port Ar
thur. Indeed. many people think that
Russia has treated her old soldiers
BADLY. Cen Alexieff, who was com
nander.in-chief at the front during
The Japanees war. has been tried re-
2ently and sentenced to fines and i'm
0risonment; Gen. Kuropatkin. who
leld the same position, has been pub
icly censured; Admiral Nebagatoff
haired GEN Stoesselts fate and the
sfficers of his squadron have been
:ashiered or otherwise punished for
he disasters which overlook the Rus
ian fleet. Many, Kuroptakin among
hem. were made heroes before they
went out to the front, being presented
With ieweled swords and, one would
}hink, DROWNED in champagne, be
veen Moscow and Manchuria.
The defeats that followed came as
4 painful surprise. People grew an
gry-the government grew angry.
Somebody had to be blamed for a
thoroughly bad system and. unfortu.
7ately for them, the first choice fell
Upon Gen. Stoessel and Admiral
Nebagatoff. Now. when one is selling
tea and the other sitting at home in
poverty, the whole of Russia is blam-
ing Count White, the ex-premier. But
as nobody dared to do 1t while he was
N power the authorities wrath was
expended on those who were not in
bower. Quite a series of trials for
areless and reasonable conduct
While in command of troops in Man.
2huria took plaee-and severe sen
ences were passed ON those who,
'ear before, hal been loaded with
9onors. Both Gen. Stoessel and Adj
niral Nebogatoff were sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment, and, of
course, dismissal from their respec
tive services. They were put in the
sortress of St Peter and st, Paul,
which was built in the reign of Peter
he Great and has cathedral at
aehed to it where all the emperors.
expresses and grand dukes and
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1uried. The part allotted to the pris-
oners is not, naturally, shown to the
public; but it looks towards the Neva
and the never side of the city.
Each of the prisoners had a large,
bright room, which was kept warm
and dry, Before their windows
stretched the river across which
stands the winter palace, the foreign
embassies, and the admiralty. But
probably the fact that they could en-
10y the finest view in st. Petersburg
afforded them little consolation The
an-geenrals room contained camp
bedstead, with thin mattress, a
farge table before the window, a small
er table against the wall, few
chairs, a cupboard for clothes and a
washing stand let into the wall The
windows We're covered with iron rail-
ings fixed in crisis cross fashion, and
the entrance to that part Of the build,
ing was guarded day and night.
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