Show ARRAIGNS HIS OWN OWN PEOPLE PEOPLE 1 Russian Correspondent Bitterly Cen Censures Censures Censures Discouragers of Soldiers St Petersburg March 24 1215 a m in The Vre 3 today toda will publish a remarkable dispatch from a corres correspondent correspondent I In the fields field who iwho ho with the bitter taste of defeat still on his palate discusses the causes of Russian re reverses reverses reverses verses and arid contrasts contrast the spirit with which Russia and Japan are conducting the war and with sorrow and disheartenment dIsheartenment disheartenment arraigns the elements in Rus Russia Russia Russia sia who are nourishing their propaganda propaganda ganda yanda on defeats in the far east scat scattering scattering scattering in the very hour of or defeat ac ae according according cording to the correspondent broad broadcast broadcast broadcast cast among the heartsick retreating soldiers proclamations procla urging them to cease ceaS fighting and surrender The dispatch continues Not even the enemy has sent tie R such proclamations but has lias confined d himself to 10 throwing into our lines tele telegrams t telegrams J grams from foreign agencies al out disorders in Russia Ru ia Put yourself In Inthe inthe inthe the place of the soldiers and officers who returned turned r from Mukden fatigued and from want of success ss have received from the distant home proclamations with advice to that tenor Factors of Defeat Setting aside the factors of or a m mI I raT nature the correspondent enu enumerates enumerates enumerates Tour four main causes of misfortune misfortune tune First Failure to establish before the war an adequate Intelligence depart department department department ment in Manchuria or to make other ether preparations contrasted con with Japanese activity In that direction Second Russia is dependent upon a single railway while the Japanese have haye hayeman many man bases with the possibility of es establishing new ones at any an point on the coast Third The deficiencies of many 00 officers cers eelS whose hose mistakes of execution bring to naught the most mort mo t carefully thought out plan Dlan of oC the commander or whose hose technical education has hae not kept pace pa e with ith the artillery they are required to handle Fourth That victory rests not with the army almy but with the Ue nation The Tho correspondent pictures the pat devotion find and passionate long longing longing longing ing for victory o ot of the Japanese and amid continuing says saya On the other side is a nation where part of the people misunderstand the meaning of ot this war or are even een in inimical inimical inimical taking advantage of distressing times to attain more liberty The need of greater liberty is undoubted but Is Isit isit Isit it not possible to press the campaign cam ign after the war The country is entirely occupied with internal affairs and dis die disorders disorders orders turning its attention to the army aTm only occasionally and after an unsuccessful operation and then only to pour a flood of discouragement or abuse or to send as a pallIative to the retreating forces a heap of revolution revolutionary ary proclamations In concluding the correspondent pleads for a few feu fe words of encourage encouragement encouragement ment and acknowledgement that the who fell feU around Mukden are not an unappreciated e so that oth others others ers ers dying may bless the father for whom they fell |