Russians Out of Their Course
The Attack Unprovoked.
From Two to Three Hundred
Shots Fired.
A Mistake Impossible.
(Received Oct. 25, at 10.32 a.m.)
LONDON, October 24.
The Russian fleet was sixty miles out of its course when it traversed the fishermen.
Captain Whelpton has submitted to the Admiralty fragments of a 12-inch shell found aboard the Mino. trails©
Hartfield, the Mino's mate, in an interview, declared the fishers fired no rockets or signals likely to mislead the Russians.
After being damaged below water line the skipper drove a wedge into the hole to prevent the in-rush to the engine room.
Between 200 and 300 shots were fired
The skipper of the Magpie said that every sailor knows the Dogger's Bank (200 miles east of Spurn Head, Yorkshire) fishing ground, and it was impossible for the Russians to make a mistake. With their searchlights they were able to see six or seven miles.
The Wilson liner Argo was examined under a searchlight but was not stopped.
The trawler Wren and the Great Northern fishing fleet are safe. The mission ship is bringing the injured to London.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7942, 25 October 1904, Page 5
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