TODAY'S CABLES.
Russians Torpedo British Vessels. Believed Them to be Japanese Ships. I _____ Received July 23, 7.50 a.m. ' London, July 22. General Kuropatkin's reports that on the 21st some sharp-shooters and Cossacks attacked a Japanese post at Klandranza, near Ikbavwan bayoneting twenty-one. A Niuchwang letter received at . Tientsin states that the commander of a Russian torpedoer reports that , he accidentally torpedoed a British , steamer in the Gulf of Pechili. It , is surmised that this refers to the , Indo- China Steam Navigation Company's Hipsang. , Port Arthur refugees at Chifu i state that the Russians torpedoed a steamer in Pigeon Bay, mistaking , her in a fog for a Japanese warship. , They tried to rescue the crew and , passengers. Forty Chinese, one wounded, and the passengers were i brought ashore.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 27, 23 July 1904, Page 2
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