AN EXCITING INCIDENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 26, 1 February 1904, Page 5

AN EXCITING INCIDENT.

RUSSIAN STEAM EH STOPPED. ACTIVITY AT TUB CAPE NAVAL STATION. LONDON, 30th January. Tho Daily Mail's Chefoo correspondent slates that a Japanese warship in the vicinity of Chomulpho fired thrice across the bows of tho RuMinn Htoamer Argun, bound from Nakasaki to Dalny. In responso to frantic appeals by tiio pusscngait, tbo captain of the Argun decided to stop, but no further challenge wna made. A Rculcr despatch says that unusual activity is being displayed at Simons Town, tho Capo Impeiiul naval station,' where vaivhips «ro taking in largo supplies of coal and ammunition. [Simon's Town is a naval station in Capo Colony on Simon's Buy, an inlet on tho west side of Palso Bay, twenty miles south of Capetown, with which it i» connected by rail. It occupies one of the fine.sb sites in South Africa under the .lickle-slmpod headland, at the southern extremity of which stands tho lighthouse of the Capo of Good Hope. The Imperial Parliament voted a sum of £2,500,000 for enlarging and strengthening tho fortificatiout), docks, arsenal, and approaches of this station. Fa lea Bay, which corresponds on tho south to Table, Bay on tho north side of Table. Mountain, is a spacious inlet which \um an average deptli of from 12 to 15 fathoms, and is completely sheltered on all sidfs except towards the Miuth. Hero a whole fleet of thu largest vessels can ride safely at anchor under tho formidable batteries by whicli it is supposed to guard thft southern entranco botweon the. Capo Headland and Cape Hnngklip, facing it on tho opposite (east) side.]