Show OF THE JAPANESE NAVAL NAYA OFFICERS Charged With Cowardice Because They Failed to Commit Suicide When Continues in Northern Japan Victoria March steamer Kan Kanagawa agawa Maru from Japan brought news that Lieutenant Commander chi and other othet officers of the transport Mare Maru sunk by the Russian Russia Vladivostok squadron at the corn com commencement of the war are being court for alleged cowardice On the occasion of the disaster the war de department department at Tokio issued a bulletin that none of the soldiers on board were taken p that with the exception tion of the survivors who returned all had Q barn tl O or r had d EXi Ex Extended tended ID i were pan Wt e mander and other officers rs committed han har karl kari but with the re return return turn of these officers among the pris prisoners prisoners from Russia Japanese news newspapers newspapers papers say they regret their sympathy Many Killed Themselves V LIeutenant Commander said he and other officers proceeded on onboard onboard board the Russian vessels when called to surrender and the men refused to surrender many committing suicide on the deck after firing with rifles at the enemy which torpedoed and sank the transport Among the prisoners were tIe crew of the sailing schooners Hoku set sei and Koie Koi Maru Iaru which were seized by Russan cruIsers There was an American named Thompson among them St Starvation v tion in Japan The famine in north JaJan i Is caus causing ing considerable erable starvation the eath list from cold nd hunger growing I daily The Japanese newspaper have hae I correspondents in the famine districts I and their tales of woe and misery fill i column after column of the vernacular r i p I i The om la w were balding back i 1 though thousands at the relief works fearing to p pauperize the people but as one correspondent saId This Is no longer a consideration nothing Is but the saving of life A Japanese government commission headed by General Kodama has been formed to investigate post bellum ar arrangements arrangements In Manchuria Russia is de dc delaying laying the withdrawal of troops on the pretext districts that disorders exist in many I |