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Show RUSSIAN DISASTERS. I Editor of Novoe Vremya Attempts to BliSl Placo Responsibility. iSl' ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 9. M. Sou- vorln, editor of the Novoe Vremya, in a v 111 pessimistic review of tho first year Wlm of the war, in today's issue . of Mill his paper, .attributes the responsibility SPh for the Russian disasters firstly to For- - Wtj cign Minister Lamsdorff, former Vice- Bill1 roy Alexiefi! and Baron Rosen, late Bb D! Russian Minister to Japan, whom he ffiiral accuses of drawing Russia into a terrl- 1 j SRI fic war by complete ignorance of the ! I J Sjl- true state of affairs In the Far East. 1 j 9 Bti; M. Souvorin declares the reason for j f 1 Bji the fall of Port Arthur before the com- IP plete exhaustion of Its means of resist- ! j 3 llj ence was the death of Maj.-Gen. Kon- - ' n nratenko, who was the real licro of the j jjlll defense of the fortress, and who filled jjlij both the civil and military men with i; MM courage, while Lieut.-Gen. Sloessel only , j Mu, manifested civil courage. j |