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Show STRUCK THEIR -FLAGS. Russian Officers Accused of Showing Cowardice. St. Petersburg. According to the dispatch from Baron Ferzon, the commander of tho cruisor Izumrud, tho battleships remaining in tho fight wero still In squadron formation when ho wns cut off and this increases tho deop resentment felt hero at tho surrender sur-render of tho ships, the Novoo Vromya Vrom-ya ovou declaring that tho officers ought to bo courtmartialed and shot for hauling down tholr flags and turning turn-ing ovor their ships to tho Japanoso. Tho paper cites articles of tho naval regulations forbidding a commander to surrender except as a last omor-g6ncy omor-g6ncy aftor taking measures to destroy de-stroy hlfl ship. It points out that It required only tho opening- of tho seacocks sea-cocks to send tho ships to tho bottom. Tho crows would bo given a good chanco of llfo, tho paper says, and cites tho example of tho cruisor Rurlk of tlio Vladivostok squadron, which, after, tho fight with Admiral Kami-mu'ra, Kami-mu'ra, In August last, went down heroically.' he-roically.' frith colors flying. .1,51 |