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Show CRITICS ARE SEVERE OH GEN. GR1PPEWBERG I IT PETERSBURG. Feb. lS.-Gen. f Grlppenberg. who returned last night from Tsarskoe-Selo, having been summoned thither by a personal message from the Emperor to report at once, declined to 1 submit to an Interview as to the nature of hl eommunlcatlon with the Emperor. Among Gen. Kuropatkin's friends. Gen. , Grlppenberg's open criticism of the com- - mander-ln-chlef in the far East Is deeply resented. It being said that Gen. Grippen- berg, by his own admission, disobeyed or- ders by going beyond Sadepas. His pub- - lie criticism of Gen. Kuropatkin is re-. re-. " garded by the friends of the latter a a breach of discipline for which be will be . called to account. |