Deseret Evening News | 1906-03-20 | Page 8 | Why Japan Defeated Russia

WHY JAPAN O fEA TIn RUSSIA Gen Kuropatkin Says it Was Due To Lack of Preparation And Equipment SHIRKS NO RESPONSIBILITY of lit O and Lacking Initiative hulIn I fit At Petersburg Oo I ur last order ot the day to tn tho th lt army printed In tho Itu ky Invalid n Id hI th military or orMan Man iran today Is a remarkable exposure of tile tho of f tho llan defeats showing that they were due to luck IlIck o ot preparation equipment and to tho fact that thor r no explosives I s held hel heltor for tor the tho artillery tic in till thu curly stages of ot tho war He lie does S nut not his own responsibility ris minis minister i iter ter of ot war before to the war broke oui UI but points out that thu Iho of oC tho Ih defects deeper namely 1119 of oC tho troops and 1111 of oC tho Iho officers who did not display Initiative Independence I or enthusiasm In III of oC the Iron nerve perspicacity of ot tho soldiers All tills tho general boldly announces Is attributable to the oppression at OL bureaucratic rule Iulo during HID Ih last CO 50 years which In the cami of or 1100 men tINI of from the pr leaving only worthless drone Ho congratulates the troops on the ad advent vent Int of 0 liberty and hopes tor tho Iho regen regeneration of 0 tho people Oen nen Kuropatkin gives till the entire leases of 0 the tho army Which averaged a Do strength of men 2200 nicer us liS 35 3 killed and nM 1733 1133 wounded lOWi 1043 men and 2200 as liS 3 with expressing the opinion that the t c army should be certain cor III In In III time lime of oC war