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Show GOT NEWS OFPEACE NEW YORK. Spt. 2. How the news of the - Russian-Japanese peace agreement agree-ment was flashed about the Atlantic ocean and received by vessels still several sev-eral days out of port and hundreds of miles beyond direct communication with . wireless telegraph stations on land, was reported by the steamship La Lorraine, which arrived here today. Last Thursday,- while La Lorraine was about 800 miles east of New York, the peace message was suddenly caught on Its wireless instruments and the sender was learned to be the steamship steam-ship Kron Prinx Wtlhelm, bound for Europe, and already about two days out of New York harbor. A defect in one of La Lorraine's shafts caused the steamer to make part of the passage at reduced speed. |