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Show ENGLAND WROUGHT UP OVER RUSSIA'S ACTION IN SE1ZIHG VESSELS LONDON', July 19. In British official circles khe receut selxures and overhauling over-hauling of British ships In the Red sea by tbe Russian volunteer fleet steamers Smolensk and St. Petersburg are regarded re-garded as very grave international Incidents.! In-cidents.! , The leisure of the Peninsular end Oriental steamer Malacca by the 8t. Petersburg and her- arrival In the Suez canal at a prize "of iwar on her way to Libau, on the Baltic, has come as a climax, cli-max, and the Cabinet today is considering consider-ing the course to pursue. The British law offlcfirs acknowledge the right of the Russians to seize and detain malls, provided that only official communications are taken, but they take th most serious view of the status of the two Russian ships patroling the Red sea. and it any official action or protest ensues, it will be chiefly in regard re-gard to I the passage of these erstwhile merchant ships through the Dardanelles Darda-nelles and their subsequent transformation transforma-tion into ships of war. . In official circles strong comment Is made la regard to Russia's . policy in this matter. It is regarded ss impossible impossi-ble that the commanders of the Smolensk Smo-lensk and St. Petersburg were given full power, and the officials therefore, are inclined to the grave conclusion that the Russian Government gave implicit im-plicit Instructions to the two commanders. com-manders. "If their actions prove to be, as we believe, j those of vulgar filibusters," said the! St. James Gazette,' "they must be recaOed by Russia or the skull and icroeebones must be run up and they will be (fired upon whenever sighted." Another element adding to the dangers dan-gers of the situation Is the attitude Japan may assume. The Pall lall Gazette Ga-zette points out that if as stated In dispatches! dis-patches! from Constantinople the Russian Rus-sian guardshlp Chernomoretse traversed trav-ersed the smalts fully armed. "It would seem to Justify Japan in regarding regard-ing Turkey as an ally of Russia and Invoking the terms of the Anglo-Japanese treaty." , I |