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Show OUTCOME OF DISPUTE. Russian Embassador to Great Britain to Be Made Scapegoat. LONDON. Nov. 17. Tho Dally Telegraph's Tele-graph's St. Petersburg correspondent, who throughout, has taken somewhat , alarmist alarm-ist views regarding the outcome of tho North sea dispute. In a telegram printed this morning asserts that the admiralty has gained an ascendancy which compels the foreign office to repudiate Its agreement agree-ment with Great Britain and that Count Benkcendorff, Russian Embassador to Great Britain, will bo made the scapegoat scape-goat and probably will be recalled. Meantime, Mean-time, ho adds, the negotiations aro at a standstill and the matter will be referred to the Emperor. A dispatch to Renter's Telegram company com-pany from St Petersburg, however, eon-firms eon-firms the Associated Press dispatches lo tile effect that Russia does not desire lit any way to recede from the basis of the agreement, but proposes a modification of the language .submitted ln the British text, and tho Dally Telegraph Itself, in an editorial. Is inclined to hope that, ref-eronco ref-eronco to tho matter to the Emperor gives promise of a satisfactory settlement settle-ment of the matter. fc Tho paper concludes by saying that - It "cannot believe the Czar will treat thus lightly tho word of Russia pledged In his name!" |