Count Benckendorff, the Russian Ambassador to Britain, has returned to London from Germany. Upon arrival at Victoria-street Station, a crowd of juveniles hooted the Ambassador. ...
Article : 35 wordsAdmiral Lord Charles Beresfordwith the Channel Squadron has just arrived at Gibraltar, and the Mediterranean fleet is at present at Venice. ...
Article : 30 wordsAll Englands has been stirred, and considerably excited by the following message from Hull :—The Gamecock Fishing Fleet reached Hull on Sunday Bight, and reports that the Russian Baltic fleet shelled it, causing serious losses." ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Times," in reference to the incident, surmises that the Russians were the victims of a disgraceful panic, owing to the Continental yarns to the effect that the Japanese were prepared to destroy the whole fleet on the voyage. ...
Article : 450 wordsOther accounts of the outrage show that many of the fishers at first thought that the British fleet was practising at night firing. The Gamecock Fleet Fishing Company owns the Great Northern and Red Cross fleets, but the former was some distance away, and altogether ...
Article : 98 wordsThe rest of the Gamecock Company's trawlers are safe. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Foreign Office states that urgent representations based on the statements of the trawlers representative have been addressed to the Russian Government, accompanied by a statement that the British Government considers that the situation does not admit of any delay. ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Baltic fleet subsequently coaled off Brighton, and communicated with North Foreland by wireless telegraphy. It then passed the Isle of Wight, and there stopped a merchant steamer of unknown nationality. ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is stated that if the course for the return of Queen Alexandra from Denmark to England had not been altered, the royal yacht Victoria and Albert would have been in the vicinity of the outrage. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe action of the Baltic fleet in shelling the British fishing fleet is involved in mystery. Apparently 150 Hull trawlers were fishing off the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, 200 miles east of Spurn Head, and at midnight on Friday ...
Article : 325 wordsThe "Times," commenting on the situation, consequent upon the Russian outrage, says that what the British public demands in instant satisfaction. Unless regret is expressed, apologies tendered by Russia, and signal reparation promised within 24 hours," says the "Thunderer," "the nation ...
Article : 133 wordsA later account of the outrage stales that the Russian fleet was sixty miles out of its course when it traversed the fishing fleet. Captain Whelpton has submitted to the Admiralty, fragments of twelve-inch shells which were found aboard the Mino. ...
Article : 167 wordsAdmiral Fremantle, when interviewed on the subject of the outrage, conjectured that the Russians were, panic-stricken, fearing that the fishing steamers were torpedo boats. He says that unless ample apologies are made, the Government ought to recall the British ambassador from St. Petersburg, ...
Article : 152 wordsThe trawler Wren which was believed to have been sunk with her crew, and the Great Northern fleet are safe. The mission ship is bringing the wounded to London. ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is stated that before the Foreign Office sent him information of the outrage, King Edward desired to see Lord Lansdowne, and sent him a letter to this effect when the Foreign Office Minister was at Bowood, in Middle-sex. ...
Article : 69 wordsCaptain Whelpton, of the steamer Mine, states that the foremost Russian vessel threw her searchlights over the fishing craft, and a number of shots were fired at a distance of only a mile. The Mine was repeatedly struck. ...
Article : 435 wordsCount Cassini, the Russian ambassador at Washington, speaking in reference to the incident, stated that Admiral Rozhjesvenski, was ordered to allow no vessel near enough to the fleet to discharge torpedoes, but on this particular night Count Cassini forgets, the Russians ...
Article : 66 wordsCaptain Haines, of the Moulmein, Captain Whelpton of the Mino, three sailors, and Mr. Jackson, the Gamecock Company's solicitor reached London early to-day to report to Lord Lansdowne, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe commander of a Danish gunboat states that several days prior to the Baltic fleet's departure, it was rumored at Copenhagen that the Japanese had purchased several trawling vessels, and would use them to place mines and torpedoes in the way of the Russian warships. ...
Article : 140 wordsTelegraphing to the Mayor of Hull this morning with reference to the cruel attack on the fishermen by the Baltic fleet, King Edward expressed his profound sorrow at the unwarrantable action of the Russians. His Majesty expressed his deepest sympathy with the families suffering ...
Article : 84 wordsThe feeling in the city to-day was one of nervousness and excitement, but the prices of stocks did not seriously recede. M. Sazenow, at the Russian Embassy, has expressed his regret, to a newspaper interviewer for what he calls " the accident." ...
Article : 64 wordsAfter the attack on the Gamecock fishing fleet, this Russian squadron headed for Cherbourg, on the French coast, in several divisions. It is believed that the Commanders opened their secret sailing orders when off that port. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. A. J. Balfour) has telegraphed to the Mayor of Hull—"You may have full confidence in the Government." ...
Article : 34 wordsSeveral of the trawlers were riddled with the shot, and it is believed that the Wren sank with all hands. Twenty wounded men were placed on board the Fishers' Mission vessel, and the fleet then crawled into Hull, and reported the outrage. ...
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The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Wed 26 Oct 1904, Page 3
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