THE RUSSIAN OUTRAGES.
THE GOVERNMENT TAKES A GRAVE
VIEW.
LONDON, June 20.
The cruisers Lancaster and Suffolk have left Malta for Port Said, presumably to watch for the returning Russian volunteer cruisers.
June 21
Although. British insurance companies paid £8500 in connection "rrith the sinking of the Hipsang and Knight Coiniuaßder nearly a year ago, nothing has yet heea recovered iroui the Russian Government.
The Pall Mall Gazette states that the enforcement of compensation would be a more effective check to a repetition A tLese affairs than any amount of expostulation.
Mr Baifour, in the House of Commons, said tlie Government- took a very grave view of the sinking of the St. Kilda after Russia's most specific assurance that Russian cruisers in future would take no such action. Correspondence with Russia is proceeding.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2676, 28 June 1905, Page 19
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