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Show REPORTS SENT BY GERMANS UNTRUE I Newport, R. L, July 2. The Russian ambassador, George Bakhmeteff, to day gave out a message which he had h received from the minister of marine at Petrograd denying Russian responsibility respon-sibility for the sinking or the Dutch t, steainor Renes. j The message follows; "The Germans, are spreading the nows through the wireless from Stockholm as though the Dutch steam er Renes had been blown up by a tor i pedo boat off Cedre-Arn island, adding add-ing that the Russian'boat did not even aid in the rescue of. the crew. This statement is entirely false as at the time the steamer was said to have been sunk, there was not a single Russian ship in the 'described region. Evidently the German purpose is to lay upon a Russian vessel a rnisdeerl committed by themselves." . rn |