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Show CZAR IS PROSTRATED AS RESULT OF DEFEAT Broke Down and Wept When News of Defeat Was Received. St. Petersburg Moro bitter even than defeat Is tho Jnpanese claim of virtual annihilation of tho llusslan fleet with practically no losses on their side, nnct many officers cling dog godly to tho belief that Vlcc-Admlral Togo must have suffered hcavllv With every ship of Hear-Admlral Nebogatoff's reinforcing division either sent to tho bottom or forced to strlko its flag nnd only six of Rojest vonsky's orlglnnl sixteen lighting ships nbscnt from tho list of xessels Hunk or enptured, and with tho Japancso Japan-cso pursuit still continuing, no naval authority has tho temerity to drenm thnt nussla c.tn again attempt to wrest tho mastery of the sea from Japan In tho present wnr The captured warships olono will furnish Jnpan with ready made rein forcomonts which will ho moro than a match for tho Fourth Tacillc squadron, now about to sail from Cronstndt. Tho emperor wns completely prostrated pros-trated by tho news, nnd, according to reports, ho broko down nnd wept Tho offect of tho disaster will bo a terrlblo blow to tho government, Tho futility of trying to strugglo on lnnd Is every w hero recognized and tho cry for "peaco at an price' is sure to bo raised This lime it is believed tho government cannot resist such n cry. Indeed, tho radical liberals aro openly rojolclng lu this hour of their country's coun-try's humiliation They declnro that tho disaster means ieace nnd n constitution, consti-tution, and that tho deaths of thou-innds thou-innds of theli fellow countrymen and tho loss, of over a hundred million dollars' worth of warships is not too big n prlco to pa |