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Show BLAMES ARMENIANS Russia Says They Are Responsible for Massacres ST PETERSItl'Ri;. Jan S -A seml-tf-ficial communication on ihe situation In tin Caucasus, published this mornlne;, sahl that what happened years hk fn the Asiatic Asi-atic Turke dlatrlCt under the- name of Armenian massacre. Is bcinjr repeated In the Caucasifs It s;i's that the Armenians who were given refuge there by Russia are Introducing their revolutionary and oiher anti-governmental methods, fomenting fo-menting disorders and arousing the Mohammedans Mo-hammedans against th mselves as they did In Asiatic Turkev. This, the communication com-munication says, is the real origin of the mass-acres wbhh have recently taken place In several localities of the Caucasus. The Government. It Is announced has adopted energetic measures to combat the movement, it Is added that Count von VorontsoffrDashkoff, Vlceroj of Ihe Caucasus, Cau-casus, who Is 111. Will be superseded. Defends the Troops. Another communication published this morning defends the troops agajnsl the harges of hnrbarous conduct In suppressing suppress-ing the insurgent movement in various parts of Russia It declare? that the ;irrns and explosives already seized wer sufficient to have killed thousands of persons per-sons and tO have destroyed whole cltli'.s The Government the omniiinleailon says Is convinced thnt the Nation will approve, the measures adopted l.y It to Circumvent such plots |