RUSSIA WANTS WAR TO THE BITTER END.
MAKING A SCAPEGOAT OP THE CZAR. HUMILIATING CIRCUMSTANCES.
By; Electric Telegraph—Per Press [Association—Copyright. Reoeived 10.21 p.m., June 2. London, June 2, I The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondI ent roports that by a large majority of the I Imperial Council it was decided to persevere to the bitter end. The Czar wavered before his uncle the Drand Duke Vladi- | mir’a eloquent argument, but quickly reverted to the majority’s view. The Bourse Gazette publishes a page of thinly-disguised attacks on the Czar for the disasters and blunders. This is the first time a newspaper has dared to seek a scapegoat on the throne. The consensus of opinion at St. Petersburg is that Admiral DiebogatoH’s sailors mutinied and hoisted the white flag. Two features which wound the pride of Russian naval men are the smallness of I the Japauese losses and the surrender of I four warships. I
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1471, 3 June 1905, Page 2
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