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Show . iiucsiA said: TO HAVE7' I FOOLED SHIPBUILDERS Alleged. That ' Torpedo-Boat; Destroyer Was Cleverly Taken Out of England. ! NEWnTORK, Nov. 19 A remarkable remarka-ble etory comes from Glasgow, Scot land, to the effect that a torpedo-boat destroyer of great speed. . built In an English shipyard, has been delivered to . the Russian Government, and that B'jrke Roche, ex-member of Parlia- limt from Ireland, and, a few years ago well known In society and club life In New York, had command of the boat during Us voyage through the Kiel ship canal to Ldbau, on the Baltic. According to the correspondent, de- tails of the matterwere brought to Glaa- gow by members of the boat's crew, who have returned from Russia aboard a merchant vessel. The dispatch asserts that the bunders of the craft were led to believe that certain persons in New Tork desired to purchase It for the purpose of racing against a steam yacht owned by a millionaire mil-lionaire sportsman. They built a temporary deck house, concealing the lines of the war vessel; the torpedo tubes were sheathed over and the boat was to be fitted out more completely in an American port. By this method. It Is alleged, the builders supposed they 'were merely aiding in establishing a great record for their creation; but, according to the story now told, the little war vessel took an entirely different course, and, . manned by a picked crew, made a quick run to Libau. There is no official confirmation of the story. " |