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Show Bad Generalship , Shown by Russia Russian Officers Severely Criticised by High Authorities in. St. Petersburg. PARIS, Oct. 19. The Temps today gives prominence to statements mado In a dispatch dis-patch from St. Petersburg, which, It sayB, comes from a highly authoritative source, severely criticising the Russian generalship In the latest battle. A detailed de-tailed explanation Is given of tho various vari-ous reverses and the writer adds: "At not a point were available Russian forces concentrated for an effeotlvo offensive. of-fensive. Large numborB of mon and cannon remained unutilised. Orders wcro changed suddenly In contradiction and confusing each other, testifying to general gen-eral Incoherence. Gen. Stakolborg's army, made up of tho best fighting material, ma-terial, was so detached from the main body that tho important turning movement move-ment confldod to It was foredoomed to failure," The dispatch adds that tho information informa-tion at Mukden indicates an early evacuation evacu-ation of that town. |