We mentioned recently, in reference to the Batthe of Msushima, that Russian naval officers who were in the battle reported to their friends here that on some of the Russian vessels the crews refused to fight at 30 all, men in some cases jumping overboard as soon as the action began, 1 Father than fight, so that on. some%of 31 the vessels: the only.: guns thas., were fired at all, were fired by the officers, The fact is that the general discontent in Russia is rapidly becoming a revolution. Russia has been seething for years, but the bureaucracy, headed by the Grand Dukes, has bean strong enough to hold the country down. The war with Japan has shown the real incompetence of the bureaucracy, and. the country will be held down no longer; and adequate concessions, and. abandons unless the Czar promptly makes
the: insensate, vacillation that has marked -his action during. the past year, it is feared that, we may see a repetition in Russia of the horrors of the French Revolution. The murder of the majority of their officers by the crew of the Potemkin shows how bitter is the feeling of the
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