ADMIRAL SENTENCED TO DEATH.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 24. Admiral Nebogatoff, who was captured by the Japanese with seven thousand men at the battle of Taashima, and the oemmanders of three battleships, not including tbe Orel, have been condemned to death.
Ia view, of extpnaating circumstances, and the aooused's many years of blameless service, the Czar has been recommended to commote the sentences in every oase to imprisonment for a decade in a fortress. . \
Of the qther offloera concerned four were sentenced to from two to four imp/tsonment in a fortress and the remainder were acquitted.
Received December 26, 10.35 p.in
LONDON, December 26,
The 'l'imes says that the sentence passed on Admiral NebogatofE will be considered outside Russia as severe—even vindictive. It is difficult to resist the suspicion that be has been made the scapegoat for mnch more gnilfcy and highly placed persocages, who really lost the battle.
CABLE NEWS.
ByJTelegraph—Press Association—Copyright,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8319, 27 December 1906, Page 5
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