THE POSITION DISCUSSED.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10457, 4 November 1904, Page 4

THE POSITION DISCUSSED.

"SOMEONE 1 HAS BLUNDERED." TTHiEI OBJECT OF ENGLAND 1OZAORI WISHES! TO SAVE HIS FLEET(Received 3rd, 12-55 p.m-) LONDON, November 2The Expressl and 'Daily News are optimistio with reference to the situa tion. The latter believes there is growing evidence that somebody on the squadron blunderedThe injury was accidental though the) negligence was grossi and' ableThe Telegraph, suggests that! Admiral 'R'oshdestvensky'si romancing was based on hearsayThe admiral is known to Englishmen) as an honourable sailor, and if h& was personally responsible would insist on stating his own case in persofl. The Telegraph refuses to believe that the Czar ■will not fulfil the pledges;, but every days; delay in redeeming them increases the tension- • The iM|orning! Post says; :t;ha detentiom of part of the fleet implied some kind of admission of wrong; sailing! under the same admiral, and 'Mr Balfour's' ■approval removes only the element of reparationLi! the whole list the terms of Mr Balfour'a chief preoicoupations was toi aivoid force, while the Czar was to get the fleet out- of danger- ■