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Show JAPANESE DECIDE to mm Tokio Authorities Want Explanation Ex-planation of Report Concerning Con-cerning Liner Siberia. TOKIO, May 2. Great' relief is felt here at the news from Manila that the Pacific Mail steamer Siberia, reported yesterday bv wireless to have been in groat ponl off the coast of .Formosa, is safo at Manila. No satisfactory explanation is available avail-able in Tokio as to now tho alarming reports of yesterday camo to be disseminated. dis-seminated. Tho Japanese authorities have decided to investigate. Japan has recalled tho warships she dispatched yestcrdny to the aid of the liner supposed sup-posed to be in distress. A dispatch from Manila received last night said the Siberia steamed into the port at 1 1 a. m. today after an uneventful unevent-ful voyage from Nagasaki, which port she left April 2fl. Captain icedor of the Siberia said he believed the reports that his vessel was in distross aroso over confusion in the call letters of the steamer Persia, with which vessel ho had boon in communication. Theso lottcrs are M. 13. S. and thc3T doubtless were mistaken for"S. 0. S., " the ina-rino ina-rino appeal for aid. The wirolcBS operator on board the Siberia added that tho atmospheric conditions con-ditions had been bad, making difficult the sending of wireless mossages. Tho first orroneous reading of tho wireless calls from tho Persia evidently woro made at tho Osezakal wiroleES station sta-tion in Japan. Thoy were interpreted as setting forth that tho steamer had mot with an accident and was in distress. dis-tress. Other wireless reports were responsible re-sponsible for tho belief that she wae sinking. n receiving the news the Japanese government aispatched cruisers and merchant ships from Formosa to whero the Siberia was supposed to be; a British Brit-ish warship steamed at full speed to her aKsistanco and the American naval authorities au-thorities at Manila made hurried nrenarations to send help. |