Show S rih ON BRITISH STEAM kner in incident which shows the extreme measures taken to insure the safety of the czar after failure to answer ot 0 russian commander corn mande r the british steamer woodburn is made a target by russian boat viborg Vl bore Finland the Tho british steamer woodburn was tired upon at night by a russian Itus torpedo boat near bear tho the island ot of dirke for or approaching too close to the bay on the finnish coast where emperor nicholas and I 1 emperor william were to meet the me projectile from the torpedo boat boal pierced a steam pipe and one lie mem her ber ot of the crew craw of 0 the british was wounded the incident shows the extreme nervousness for tho the safety ot of emperor nicholas the first was a blank charge but this was wad followed by two shells par for eions ot at the shells penetrated tho the bulkheads and the boiler of the woodburn the engineer was wounded tn in the log and nd was taken aboard tho russian cruiser asia where his wounds were dressed alter making repairs tho the woodburn sailed for or her home port part according to the reports received from copenhagen the reason given by the russian commander tor for fixing on the tha british steamer woodburn was waa that the latter was signaled by the tha russians but gave no signal in return |