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Show Russians); Want Czar to gatoff Executed: -n ST. PETERSBURG, June X 3:55 sl m. ' ; FeeUng'ln the Admiralty against Rear- Admiral Nebogatofl! continues o run high, the majority of the naval authorities be-'" be-'" X lng deLf to the appeale of the few who v insist that the Admiral's action ln sur-' sur-' V rendering his warships should not be con-- con-- demned until the circumstances became fully known. The majority ay they v could forgive anything but surrender, and t- point to the precedent set in the case of t- the Russian-warship Raphael; which, in - 1SJS.' during the Russo-Turktahv war, c' struck its colors to three Turkish ships ?' which surrounded it. Nicholas I. meted out a terrible punish-L punish-L ment to the officers and crew . of the Raphael, ordering that all of them should - be shot after their exchange, and direct-' direct-' ' - in that if the ship should ever be re-, a captured its Infamous history should be blotted out by the total destruction of the 11 veeseL ' - . The Raphael, strange to say. was re-I re-I captured thirty-four yesrs later at Binope, I during the Crimean war, a son of the ' t; captain who surrendered her taking part f he battle, and to this son fell the task v i: . f executing the dead Emperor's orders to jV'dtstroy her. Many naval authorities deli de-li clare that the Emperor should reserve the ' same fate for Admiral lsTebogatof. . 1 - - |