WHY THE RUSSIANS ATTACKED.
FIRE ON THEIR OWN TOR-
PBDOERS.
RUSSIAN ADMIRAL HOLDS! AN
INQUIRY.
LONDO'Ni, October 31
The Chronicle's Vigo correspondent and the Daily Express's St.- Petersburg representative declare the Baltic fleet attacked their ■ own torpedoers, saipposing thorn to 1 be Japanese.
Two vessels wliidii were scouting loomed out of the fog ahead of the transport.
The officer of the latter vessel reported he wa,s being attacked;One tonpedoer escaped across the bows when the firing began, while the Commander of the second imagined jtihe. Jap«nierie: wetret aftitaakingt, and replied with quick fireis, and several on the nearest man-of-war were wounded-
The. commander of the torpedbers discovering hie mistake made frenziedsignals, and got beyond range.
Three battleships continued firing. Before reaching Cherbourg Admiral Roshdestvensky held an inquiry, being unaware then that neutrals had been wounded-
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Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10454, 1 November 1904, Page 2
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