Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-13 | Page 1 | British Ships Held up by Russians

4 X BRITISH SHIPS X HELD UP BY .. X RUSSIANS X 4-. 4 PER IN, STRAITS OF BAB-EL- HANDED, July 12. The British -f steamer Menlas, from Clyde for -y Shanghai, which arrived horo to- night, reports that she and tho British steamer Crewe Hall, from K- tho Clyde for Kurrachec, woro -f- stopped on Juno 11 in the Red sea, 4- south of Jedda, by the Russian vol- untccre llect steamer St. Peters- r burg, wtiloh carried olght guns and a large crew. Both steamers were -f -I- boarded and all their papers and -r manifests overhauled. Tho vessels -J- wore detained four hours, after -f -f which the St. Petersburg stcaniod off to tho northward -f --