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Show A HOPELESS ERRAND. W wonder if it was not the intention of the Russian admiral, when he fired on the English fishing boats, to so anger Great Britain that she i would send her channel and Mediterranean fleets I after him, to then make a little show of fighting and quickly surrender? He is evidently both a 1 soholar and a sailor; he has heard of what the ' Japanese have done to the Russian squadrons in the Orient, and he must know, with that material under him, that the Japs will take him in before he can over reach Vladivostok, and the chances are five to one that the last port where he could find refuge on the Asian coast will be closed j against him before he can reach there . J What is still more probable is that he intended to do something which might tie up his fleot in some British, French or Spanish port until a long investigation could be held. Certainly no man 1 ever started out on a more hopeless errand than did that admiral, if his purpose was to achieve glory by fighting the Japanese in their own waters. wat-ers. I |