London vit Bombay, 20th July.
News has reached Puris from St. Petersburg that the Emperor received Admiral Rozhdiestvensky's report on the 10th inst, ascribes his defeat to defects in his guns, ammunition, and ships, due to administrative corruption.
Also to his crews being mutinous and incompetent. A mutiny broke out at Madagas-ar, and again of Formosa, and finally during the battle, when the crews of the Seniavine and Apraxine refused to fight, and part of the crews of other ships followed rheic example—Reuter.
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