A YANKEE YARN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 236, 3 October 1894, Page 5

A YANKEE YARN.

THE RUSSIAN AND BRITISH

FLEETS.

THREATENED HOSTILITIES.

Washington, October 2. Reports are published here that owing to British ships following and watching him, the Russian Admiral" at Yokohama ordered his vessels to get ready for action, and signalled that he intended to open fire.

The British demanded an explanation, whereupon the Admiral complained that following his squadron was :an act of belligerency, and the British ceased. [The above cablegram is most likely an American fiction, or the facts have probably been greatly distorted;. On one of oar representatives speaking to Lieutenant) Martin, of H.M.B. Rapid, this morning, ha gave ib as his opinion that 1 there was simply nothing in the report. He states that it is usual when Russian ' warships are on a coaab where there is an i English squadron, for one of the English vessels to follow the foreigner. This is done in such a way that no offence is given [ and the ,boab of relations exist between both parties; but cases have occurred when through hob-headedness on the part of one of the commanders, an incident like the above has come about. In such a case, the (Admirals generally settle amic- ; ably as to the movements of their ships.}