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Show GERMANS SEIZE j RUSSIAN VESSEL I Kaiser's Fleet in Pacific Waters Embarasses Entire Japan- I ese Shipping in Orient. I Toklo, Aug. 10 (9 59 a. m l Th German fleet at Tsing Tau has .tM n ad B Ised the Russian steamer Ria- I an. carrying British subjects, has driven one hundred merchantmen to the refuge of Japanese ports and has M embarrassed the entire Japanese ship- kB pin in the Orient. I The press gives prominence to an alleged communication from America saving the United States is sending a f fleet to Asia to protect its Interests 1 The report is considered baseless bur it has nevertheless reawakened inter- fi-l est as to America's attitude. - Uorty missionaries, chiefly French. I but some of them Germans, are leaving leav-ing for their home countries to take jL their places In their armies 1 |