THE RUSSIAN ARMS.
GLORY UNDIMMED. ARMY BETTER THAN A FLEET. WHAT JAPAN COULD DO. .BY, TELEGRAPH—rPItESS ASSOCIATION —COrXHIGHI ■" (Rec. March 20, 10.16 p.m.) St. Petersburg, March 20. . .Tho Tsar has issued.a rescript to,the Army, and, tho Navy, .-in ..tho course of which ho states that, .tho heroic .defence, of ..Port Arthur, yhich amazed tlio whole iyorld by . the resolution. and valour ..of the' garrison, was suddenly closed by. a disgraceful surrender.' Tho rccont Court Martial had punished tho guilty, and had re-established the unforgettable heroic deeds of the valiant garrison, wiiich Vera' written in a new and splendid pago of tho annals of Russia's warriors. ' Admiral, Rpshdestyensky, who commanded the Russian'• Fleet, that was crushed by the Japaneso at the Battle of Tsushima, in an interview, justified the Duma's refusal to create a powerful fleet. The Admiral thinks, it would be better to spend the monoy on the Army.- '
' "If," ho says, Russia begins ,to build' battleships', Japan will immediately seizo the rest of tho Island of Sakhalin, tho mouth of the Amur River, iind the Kamchatka Pen-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 152, 21 March 1908, Page 5
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