Mr. Balfour described Admiral Rozhdiestvenski's version of the affair 98 pure fancy. The Russian Government, he said, hed promised compensation and an inquiry. The detention at Vigo of the part of the fleet concerned had been ordered, and adequate punishment would be meted out to the officers guilty of the outrage.
29th October.
The International Court of Inquiry, to consider the circumstances of the North Boa atrocity, will sit at Vigo.
'A portion of the Baltic Foot has boon ordered to be detained twenty days. Russi isos that precautions will fairist the recurrence of such ghastly mistakes.
Mr. Balfour has explained that there no question of arbitration. The status of the body that will deal with the affairs is that of an international commission.
Its believed that the French Ambassador, Paul Cambon, assisted in arriving at the peaceful settlement.
An Army Order sanctions Lord Kitchener's Redistribution Scheme.
Later.
The "Standard" and the "Morning Post" dissent. The scheme comes into operation immediately, a to involve " cost of ten The following telegram is from the "South China Morning Post"
Amoy, 1st November. about 11 p.m. on Monday evening a fire broke out at the American Consulate here.
The flan.es got a strong hold, and eventually the Consulate, with the archives, was totally destroyed.
There were no casualties.
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