BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.
THE KOKTIi SEA OUTKAGrE. A RUSSIAN OFFICER'S STORY. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received November 24, 12.2 a.m.) LONDON, November 23. The. "Daily Mail’s” Copenhagen, correspondent alleges that a Danish-born officer aboard the Russian cruiser Aurora states that Admiral Rozjestventski s flagship mistakenly fired upon tlie Aurora in a. mist, killing the chaplain, wounding a sailor and making thirteen large holes in the Aurora-. The captain sent a Marconi message, “Wo -are being fired at, simultaneously- himself firing shells at the fishermen who were near. Admiral Rozjestvenski received eight warnings from spies against- Japan. The Aurora- saw nothing suspicious.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXII, Issue 13603, 24 November 1904, Page 7
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103BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXII, Issue 13603, 24 November 1904, Page 7
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