DOGGER BANK OUTRAGE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 20

DOGGER BANK OUTRAGE

LONDON, January 18. It is reported at Kiel that the supposed Japanese torpedo-boats that participated in the Dogger Bank incident were really Russian warships, which afterwards returned to Libau and were secretly repaired. PARIS, January 20. In the British and Russian statements of fact regarding the Dogger Bank incident, which have been submitted to the International Commission now sitting in Paris, both parties adhere to their previous stories. The Russians allege that they fired on two torpedo boats. When the trawlers were noticed, the flagship signalled the order to protect them, but the imperative duty of protecting the battleshins rendered it necessary to continue firing. Shortly afterwards the torpedo boats withdrew and disappeared. Admiral Rozhdestvensky explained, iu his written evidence, that he felt it absolutely necessary to continue the. jourand under the cncumsuances he was’ entitled and bound to act as he did.