25th October, Tue news of the exploit of the Baltic squadron in the North Sea on Friday night last, contained in the Reuter telegrams which we publish this morning, indicates that the officers of this notorious flotilla are as madly irresponsible as the commander of the torpedo-boat destroyer which sank the Hipsing some months ago. It has been generally knowe that the Russian Admiralty has been at its wits' end t" find officers and men for this unique collection of new, middle-aged, and antiquated ships; and it seems to have swept the lunatic asylums of St. Petersburg to provide a complement for these vessels, It appears that the Baltic fleet was passing through the North Sea on Friday night when it came across a fleet of fifty trawlers, The first portion of the fleet passed through the fishing-ground without any incident appar-ntly; the remainder first turned their searchlights for some time on the fleet, and then opened fire on them. The skipper and mate of the trawler Crane had their heads taken off by a shell, their decapitated bodies being brought to Hull as evidence of the treatment these harmless British fishing-boats received at the hands of the Navy of Holy Russia. The boatswain and others were wounded, and their vessel was sunk, while it is known that another trawler was sunk with all on The wounded men from the Crane were taken on board the mission vessel of the North Sea Mission which accompanies the trawling fleet to sea. Two other trawlers, the Moulmein and Mino,
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