SEQUEL TO A WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13359, 27 December 1906, Page 5

SEQUEL TO A WAR.

RUSSIAN ADMIRAL SENTENCED TO DEATH.

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. St. Petersburg, December 25. Admiral Nlobogatdff, who \sas captured by the Japanese with seven thousand m<en at the battle o£ Tsushima, and the commanders of- thi-op battleships, not including the Orol, have been sentenced to death, , ' In view, however, of oxtenv.a i t'ing> circumstances, ani the accused's many years at bl awe-loss service, the Czar has been recommended, .to commute the sentences '.n el^*ery caso to imprisonment for -a decadp in a fortress. 01 the other officers concerned four, were sentenced to from two to f <>ur mon lhs' .imprisonment in a fortress awl the remainder wni'o aequ-itted. London, Bocembe'r 26. The Times says the sentence on Niobog-otoff will be consid-arnd, outside Russia; as severe, evcav vindictive. It is difficult, says the Times, to resist the suspicion that he has be n made a scapegoat for much-more-gui^ty. highly-plaeod parsonages, who really lost, the battle, though they, nev-cr kd th.» fleet half arros-a the wo Id, nor naV|" gated, the. peas of Japan.

TARDY JUSTICE.

Received December 27. 0 a.m. St. Petersburg. December 2(i. The acquittal dl the majority of Admiral NiWhoq;atoff'-f» officers, after encluriuTr ia'iominy anrl privation, ps conf»'dered in St. Potfrsburg as tardy justice. The eai'liest aoeounts stating that ' ih^ petty • officers and crew , mutinied, eomnellino't'he Hurrr-r.fV'r, has, hepn disproved.