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Show NO 03DEBS EEOAEDINO THE nrTESKZD SHIPS. ST. PETEnSBCna. Sept. 12.-Xo orders or-ders have yet been given for the return to home "ports of th Interned warships. In accordance with the terms of the peace treaty. The Admiralty can do nothing until notift-d of telegraphic exchanges of the ratification..' When that occurs the vessels will bolt the homeward-bound pennant and start for the Baltic or Vladivostok Vladi-vostok under their own steam and with their own crews, as the period of internment intern-ment has been used to repair all damages sustained in the battle of August 10. and In tha battle of tha Sea of Japan. It is absolutely Incorrect to say that any steps have yet been taken toward the execution of tha nw naval programme except the orders given for the construction construc-tion of torpedo boats and for a 15,000-ton cruiser in England, as already announced ' The next big vessel will probably be another an-other 16,ti00-ton cruiser of the same tvue to be built In tha Baltic. |