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Show LONDON, July 1, 12:07 a. m. A dispatch dis-patch to Reuters Tele pram company from Stockholm says that steamers which have arrived in port -witnessed a naval battle Thursday night fifteen miles. south of Landsort, which is south of Stockholm. They report that a "Russian squadron with a few torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers was attacked by a German fleet comprising cruisers and large warships. At the outset the Germans- were unable to defeat the Russians, Rus-sians, but eventually reinforcements were obtained and it is sunosed the Russians withdrew northward. The correspondent adds that nothing was visible from the coast of the reported re-ported battle owing to the fog, but that gun firing was heard throughout the night and at 6 o'clock this morning a fresh and violent cannonade began. |