A SENSATIONAL ESCAPE.
PSIZS TOO MUCH FOR JAPANESE. ELtTEJACKSTS THROWN OVEE- I BGAiID. Received 5.31 a.m.) j i LONDON, April 12. | : A sensational escape of a Ens- i sia.n prize from the hands of the ] Japanese is repoi ted. At an early stage in the war one ; cj the Japanese cruisers captured ] a ftussiaii coasting steamer. Her crew, vrhieli numbered eigiit. were counted as a prize, and ■ ■c-ere oreered to take the vessel to 1 a Japanese port. j j Eat the captain, > j dint of using ] th= Sstnonian diaiset of the Bus- t sian Baltic provinces—a language t«itii Tx-liicii the Japanese are an- l acquainted—arranged a. rescue at s a givan signal. ' J The jretr then mshed at the J Japanese anl thre-w them all over- s toard \rith the exception of txro l of£i?ers, whom they conveyed as * ■Diisonesß to Vladivostok. j a
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 88, 13 April 1904, Page 7
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