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Show RUSSIANS TREATED THE SAILORS BADLY VICTORIA. B. C Sv. JlrrCharJ!,. Grant and Robert Findley. Victoria sealers, seal-ers, who were captured by the Russian Cruiser Gromoboi, which sank the Japanese Japan-ese sealer Hokusei Mam. on which they were engaged as sealers, reached home last night, after being in the Russian prison- at ' Meldweid Novogorod for months. They say. the Russians treated them badlv. stealing all their effects. United States Consul Smith of Moscow visited i them twice while in prison, and It was through his instrumentality the news of their predicament reached their relatives. Three other Victoria sealers. Henrv Jaeobsen. Fred Cochran and William Wil-liam Williams, captured at the same time, are stranded in St. Petersburg. |