Show RUSSIANS RESENT THE surrenders officers turning over ships to japanese should be shot says one paper st petersburg juno 2 a m according to the dispatches from baron ferzan the commander of the cruiser the battleships remaining in the fight were still in squadron formation when be was cut off and this increases the deep resentment felt here at the surrender ot the the eremya even da daring that the officers ought to b court and shot tor hauling down their flags and turning their ships over to the japanese the paper cites articles ot tho naval regulations forbidding a commander to surrender except as a last emergency after taking 0 o destroy his ship it points out that it required only the opening of tho sea cocks to send the ships to the bottom the browa would be given a good chance of life the paper says and cites the example of the cruiser of tho vladivostok squadron which after the fight with admiral kamimura Kaml mura in august last went down heroically with colors flying the report from lieutenant dor novo of the torpedo boat destroyer braal telling how that boat was disabled on the first day of the fight and escaped to vladivostok through the midst of a hostile flotilla of destroyers being obliged even to burn her woodwork to reach the harbor awakens a gleam of satisfaction and though the failed to reach vladivostok her destruction at the hands of her own crew Is regarded with almost equal pleasure the saddest note for st petersburg i baruck by lie destruction of the alexander III which was manned by sailors of the guard and officered exclusively by men prominent in society and at court her crew served during the winter time as a regiment of tho guard of which the dowager empress was honorary commander baron reported yesterday that the had arrived at vladivostok di the was built at the yards st petersburg and was launched in 1903 she was of tons displacement indicated horsepower horse power and 31 12 1 2 feet beam and 16 feet draught with a speed of 23 knots an hour her armament consisted ot six 47 inch bulck faring guns six 8 inch bulck faring guns two 11 machine guns and she was equipped with five torpedo tubes her complement was men |