The Malacca Incident.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 28, 25 July 1904, Page 2

The Malacca Incident.

• Received July 25, 7.35 a.m. London, July 23. The Telegraph's St Petersburg , correspondent asserts that the Grand Dukes Alexander and Alexis and , Avellan, without Count Lamsdorff s . knowledge, ordered the volunteer fleet to molest British shipping, and apparently did not consider the question of status. Couut Lamsdorff was powerfully impressed by the despatch of warships to Alexandria. ; The Cuar hurriedly returned to St Petersburg. i Professor Martens, of the Hague i Tribunal, was consulted, and finally , Count Lamsdorff insisted on the Malacca's release. Ultimately Rus- ; sia decided to examine her cargo at Suda Bay, leaving the question of i status undecided.