THE NORTH SEA OUTRAGE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 1890, 7 November 1904, Page 5

THE NORTH SEA OUTRAGE.

TO-DAY’S GABLE NEWS

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

THE COMMISSION TO MEET IN A FORTNIGHT. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, November 6. Reuter’s agency at St. Petersburg reports that Russia has accepted Britains’ draft of the Convention, and it is expected that the Commission will meet in Paris in a formghtt. THE BALTIC FLEET LEAVES TANGIER. London, November 6. Admiral Rohzjestvenski visited the French cruisers Klober and the British cruieer Diana. His section of tbe Baltic fleet will sail from Tangier at dawn to-day. Last night the batttleships Victorious (Captain Troubridge), flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Bridgeman, second in oommand of the Channel Flest, and the battleship Magnificent (Captain Farquhar) suddenly left Gibraltar to patrol the straits. The battleships Illustrious and Jupiter have steamed westward.

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS WILL NOT SUFFICE.

London, November 5

It is believed that far more than £IOO,OOO will be demanded of Russia for the Dogger Bank outrage.

SPEECHES ON THE SITUATION.

London, November 5. Lord Onslow, President of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at Guildford, said the crisis would be unsettled till the officers of the Baltic fleet who had been detained were ascertained to comprise those specially implicated, and on whom the blame, if there be blame, must fall. The Right Hon. A. Akers-Donglas, Secretary of State in the Home Department, in a speech at Sandwich, said there was no reason to suppose that the Russian assurances in the negotiations, in which France as a friendly nation had given assistance, would not be fulfilled.

THE RUSSIANS FIRE AT EACH OTHER.

London, November 5. Captain Clado declares that the text of the wireless telegraph question received on the warships will be submitted to the Commission. Torpedo boats, he asserts, passed the Admiral's ship before the latter fired. The German newspaper “ KreuzZeitung” declares that the Commission ought to hear the members of tho crew of the German trawler Sonntag, who declare that the Rus sian warships, shortly after leaving the Skager-Rack (between the north point of Jutland, Denmark, and tbe south of Norway) fired at each other.