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Tlie Malacca
Received July 29,. 8.35 a.m.
LONDON, July 2S.
The Smolensk and, Saint Petersburg, are retiring from Suez, ,being advised that a Japanese cruiser is approaching. The Saint Petersburg captain has been promoted.
Router's Suez correspondent says tho Eussian Consul supplies German steamers with a pass covering the Red Sea in'the event of encounteringl Russian cruisers." :
The St. "Petersburg correspondent of the newspaper Echo do Paris states officially- that the Russian Foreign Office declares that a steamer is pursuing the Smoiensik and Saint Pctensbiirg with an order- •to them to stop searching, aud directing, them to merely police the In-' dian ocean without the right of capture.
■ After a conference between 'ihe British: and Russian Consuls and tlie prize .commander, the -Russian flag was hauled down from the Malacca at sunset and the crew landed. The British flag was hoisted at sunrise tcday. Apparently, the cargo has' not been searched. Two British warships escorted the Malacca a part of ■ the Way. through ths MediteiTa'nean, and then disappeared.
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Manawatu Standard, 29 July 1904, Page 5
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