Show RUSSIANS STICK TO THEIR STORY t lap Jap Torpedo Boats Among the thea English Fishermen a t OFFICERS REFUSE TO TALK f FROM BOIt A NAN BELONG LONG LONGING ING G SQUADRON 4 StI 5 15 mSt newspapers and their cor have b been en in their forts to interview Captain Clad 00 io a s tb ti who vho however have luYe ed to talk for tor tion The morning prints a long letter dated YIgo Vigo Oct ltd credited to a m n ot of the Baltic adron containIng a summary or of oren en ta up to the firIng on the British trawlers and the incidents of Ute nIght of Oct 21 The rhe letter sa says s that Admiral and the ad admiralty before the sailing ot of the squad 1011 received from secret a m mass massof ss of information regarding the plans and whereabouts of Japanese In European Witt t rs ra The letter says sas The had torpedo boats In Inthe inthe the N Norwegian fjords and also pur purchased purchased chased a number of fishing vessels at Hamburg Hull Southampton and 18 a The Russians also pur a number ot of fishers small steiners for scouting duty Sent Out The Russian government warned the tho governments of Germany Denmark ana Groat of the Information In it and asked that special precautions be taken to keep the track of the squadron clear of commercial Germany GermanO and Denmark both Denmark sent Lent a warship I with the Ole squadron and warned ort off a number or of fishermen and coasting craft lefore leavIng Skagen AdmIral Ho received further in information formation stating that four Japanese torpedo boats accompanied b by a collier I were waiting west of Cape Skagen The Baltic squadron left In the mornIng nd the Japanese In order to make a attack were oblIged to follow and I Itch up UD with the warships In the North sea Movement of the Fleet FleetTIe TIe Tle writer enters into a detailed statement of the movements of the va a divisions or of the squadron the day the ships left Skagen tending to show that hat I the Russian torpedo boats were sent ahead and that none ot of them were anywhere In touch with the battleships and id cruIser divisions The night of Oct 21 according to thIs letter Admiral Ro Ho received a wireless message from the transport saying there was trouble with her machinery that she wes thirty miles mUes In the rear and ked whether the squadron would t alt her arrival or proceed Then came a number of wIreless nies mes FageS In Russian als la ha the sq l drons whereabouts hy by latItude and longitude especially where the Ore Orel and Kufas The These messages cx IX teI suspicion and the flagshIp replied asking the names and the number In Int Inthe t the he family or of a on board J the Swat SW n a Green Flare f Thereupon the messages stopped It was 1 6 that night the writer of letter Jetter continues when the n S saw W a 11 green flare tiare such as Is issod by vessels In distress evIdently a the squadron to an and assI Soon thereafter a searchlight was t thrown rown on Russian n vessels by n a suppOsed sed to be accompanyIng the torpedo boats This made the a pl plain ln target for attack same tIme the Russians made out the forms ot of two t torpedo l the darkness to one side aide from the squadron on the strange torpedo boats Ii 1 Instantly darted ahead at full tull speed Th squadron fire and th this came under the guns of the therel rel and Borodino It ItIs Is thought that one was sunk Mean Ume the squadron got entangled with the fleet which was displaying o lights flags or signals Admiral Ro however despIte the fact I bat Ebat some somo of them were close enough to dp serious damage had they had evIl intent the squadron to stop atop irring Some of at the trA trawlers were then close under the bows of the squadron The Russian shIps did not either to assist or 01 to Inquire If assistance were Such proceeding at the tho says would have been entire entirely 1 ly lo too hazardous The letter says that Admiral iVa vae o ulde of at Brest to tn tor order t pro ded to VISo Vigo 2 c |