Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-07-02 | Page 6 | Officers Tried to Shift the Responsibility

OFFICERS TRIED TO SHIFT THE responsibility st petersburg july 1 tho depositions 0 various officers and sailors of the torpedo boat destroyer bedevy forming the documents in the court martial of admiral and other naval officers who surrendered to the japanese in the battel of the sea of japan in may of last year are published today the sailors testimony indicates that the admirals party boarded the bedevy with the full intention of surrendering to the first japanese ship they should encounter the initial act was to order a white flag prepared the officers of the staff of admiral and the commander of the bedevy was a pitiable exhibition in trying to shift the responsibility lity for the surrender on each other admiral though he says he was and out of his head all the time enters a manly plea of guilty because ho took no measures to prevent tho surrender