. Review of reviews and world's work. rnalswere clamoring for united British and Americanaction in shepherding the Russians to their destination.—that is, escorting them with anarmed force, so that there might be no furtherdanger to the peace and commerce of the world. After forty-eight hours of waiting,Russian Ad- Admiral Rojestvenskvs report was minis Story. received by the Kussian admiralty. The Russian admiral declared that at 1 oclockon the morning of October 21 he had been at-tacked by two torpedo boats, supposed to beJapanese, which, appearing among the trawl-ers, between the two divisi
. Review of reviews and world's work. rnalswere clamoring for united British and Americanaction in shepherding the Russians to their destination.—that is, escorting them with anarmed force, so that there might be no furtherdanger to the peace and commerce of the world. After forty-eight hours of waiting,Russian Ad- Admiral Rojestvenskvs report was minis Story. received by the Kussian admiralty. The Russian admiral declared that at 1 oclockon the morning of October 21 he had been at-tacked by two torpedo boats, supposed to beJapanese, which, appearing among the trawl-ers, between the two divisions of the squadron,seemed to discharge torpedoes. The Russiansopened fire, and sank one of them. The officerin command of the section which fired on thefishing fleet declared that a cannon had beenfired from an unknown vessel, that the trawlersfailed to obey the Russian signals to disclosetheir nationality, and that> one of the Russianvessels was hit by six shots, which woundedsome of its crew and tore off the hand of a LATEST PORTRAIT OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA. (This photograph of her majesty, to whom much credit isgiven for the peaceful solution of the Anglo-Russian dif-ficulty, was taken in Denmark. It shows her with Prin-cess Victoria and Princess Charles of Denmark.) Admiral Rojestvensky expressed his surpriseand regret that any British vessels had Russian officers further declared that theyhad received positive information of the equip-ment of Japanese boats in Swedish and Britishports, and declared it to be their belief thatthese boats were disguised as fishing vessels. 658 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. Indeed, they asserted that Japanese seamen andexplosives were seen to have been taken onboard of one of the trawlers before leavingHull. The Russians were very nervous, and itseems that the Hull fishermen were not the onlyones who were attacked during the Baltic fleetscourse through the North Sea. The Swedishsteamer Aldebaran had been chased
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