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Show OVEPvTOJlFAlSE British Steamer Sunk by the Withdraws Volunteer Fleet From (Red Sea. l . BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, July 25. Minister Conger at Peking has cabled ths 1 Btate department, under today's date, that he hat been Informed that the -.Russians today evacuated Newchwan'?. He also confirms the published ' reports of the sinking by the Vladlr ostok squadron of a British steamer with a cargo consigned to "The American Trading company." t j ST. PETERSBURG. July 15. The v Associated Press is informed that the Russian vo'unteer fleet steamers Smolensk Smol-ensk and St. Petersburg have already been ordered home, 'and that instructions instruc-tions fpr 'them to return have been cabled. ca-bled. The assurances given Great Britain on this point are declared to be satisfactory. , The Instructions given the command-. command-. ere of the vessels repeal the orders heretofore announced . in these dispatches dis-patches directing them to refrain from futther attempts to stop merchantmen either in the Red sea or the Mediterranean. Mediterra-nean. ' ' The decision not to Insist upon the - war status of ships was probably reached at the conference held Batur-i day. The two ships may be brought to the Baltic and formally recommls-. recommls-. stoned. . , j Heavy Damage Demanded. . I Russia has reiterated her assurances that all vessels seised pending the receipt re-ceipt of Instructions by the captains of - - the Smolensk fand the -6t. Petersburg shall at once bo released and that the B.-UU.U steamer Ardova wlllbe frea upoir her arrival at Sues or Port Said-the Said-the same as the- Scandla Great Britain's bill for damages against Russia f?r demurrage and . other indemnities connected with the . arreat. detention ami shelling of the British ships in the Red sea will probi ably be Very heavy. Already it is roughly estimated at 5.000.000. . fcULUETIN. ' J CONSTAUTHTOPLE, July 23. x Vessels arriving hers ' report: that a I British warship is patrolling off Caps Helas, fifteen miles south of the Dar- i danelles. She is using her search- light, .with the supposed view of in- 1 tercepting any British ships which may havj been captured by ths Bus- , sian volunteer fleet steamers, if they i attempt to pass the Dardanelles. BUIXETUI. SUEZ, July 25. Capt. Smith of the Ardova has lodged with the British Consul a protest aganist the capture and detention of the steamer. Part of ths Ardova's crew, who are aboard ths Smolensk, will be landed at Jed-da, Jed-da, Arabia. . BTJXXETUf. TOKIO, .. July 25. The Ausslan Vladivostok squadron was seen 'to the eastward of Xazusa province at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It was steaming to the east. . Xazusa province is on ths east side of Tokio bay. : 5 PSSSSBSSSJSBSPBSBSSS PROTEST BY ENGUHD j AGAINST THE FIRING OVER HER STEAMER LONDON, July S5.--While ho protest has yet been made agaliist the action of the Russian volunteer fleet steamer Smolensk In flrina two shots over the British steamer steam-er Ardova; It the British official report boar, out th. pres. 'r, -protest will probablv be entered alnt 8molenk endangering the lives of the v.'fVdova's passengers by the irregular pro-oeedlngs pro-oeedlngs of the captain of the Smolensk custom requiring that when a vessel at sea refuses to obey the signal of S warahlp to stop- to follow it up with a solid shot across her bow. . .. Th raptaln of the Smolensk, It is added. add-ed. mlRht he liable t a severe penalty tot his set and also for the transfer of the h rdova's crfr on board the Smolensk. Rut these collateral questions will be the mbiect of mutual npjrotlatlons when Great Urttaln presents her bill for damages. The main thing Is that, so far as the volunteer vol-unteer .fleet steamer Is concerned, the" acute stage, of ths diplomatic crisis has passed. ' BRITISH VESSEL IS - SUNK BY RUSSIANS OFF JAPANESE COAST YOKOHAMA, July 25. The Vladivostok Vladivo-stok squadron yesterday sunk the British Brit-ish steamship Knight Commander, ' from New York, off the province of li after transferring the .crew of "the Knight Commander to the steamer Tlslnan. which arrived here this morning. morn-ing. The Vladivostok squadron also captured a German vessel, believed to 'be 'the Arabia, with 30,000 barrels of flour and an unknown British steam- ehlp. The two vessels were sent to-j Vladivostok in charge of prize crews. The American Trading company Is the a,sent here for the Knight Commander. : ' German Steamer Searched. - ' BERLIN. July 25. The German steamer I.lsboa of the Oldenburg-Portugal line has been Hopped and searched by a Russian warship In the Gulf of Finland. She was then released. - |