TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7827, 20 August 1904, Page 5

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Miscellaneous Items.

{Received To-day, at 8.58 a.m.) London, Last Night N One thousand Russians, belonging to

the warships, have been interned at Kiaochau. [To intern is to imprison in the interior of a neutral country.]

The Taotai of Shanghai allows the cruiser Askold and the destroyer Groso voi to remain until the 23rd, when a day's notice will be given to quit or disarm. Chinese warships are expected at Shanghai. A Russian gunboat, of the Atrajni type, struck a mine and sank off Liaotishan Promontory. (Received To-day, at 8.3 a.m.) London, Last Night. The Times protests against the idea of specific instances of wrongful seizure awaiting the close of the war for settlement. However gratifying Russia's expected reply may be in principle, it may prove unsatisfactory in other directions. The Times' Odessa correspondent reports that the Volunteer cruiser Saraloff is in the Black Boa fitting ammunition hoists. She will shortly pass through the Strait of Dardanelles. The St. Petersburg newspaper Novoc Vremija says : —lt is neither easy nor desirable to try to solve, during the war, the complicated question of contraband, owing to the difficulty in harmonising with Russian views. It will be better, meanwhile, to decide each case on its merits without attempting to generalise.