Tu many Tittle book-shops and pros sion stores in unfashionable parts of St. Petersburg one can still bay boxes of sweets with Stoessel's portrait bean on the cover, Stoessel medals, Stoessel ribbons and pictures representing Stoessel, a very Ajax, personally engaged in hurling back the Japanese from Port Arthu And now no paper in Russia has a good word to say of the hero: most of them attack him, and the mildest caricatures about him which one sees in the streets represent him as peace fully milking his cow in a place of shelter while his soldiers are dying outside.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.