The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
Russia Sends Orders to Volunteer Fleet to Stop Interfering With For
 eign Shipping.
BRITAIN's VIEW ADMITTED
AGR EEs TO WAIVE THE RIGHT
 OF SEARCH.

Few Minor Points Left to be Settled
 but it is Believed, These win be
 Cleared Up To-dny-Hamburg-A -Ameri-
 can Liner scandia. ReIeased--smo-
 lensk Fires on and Seizes Another
 British ship, But Evidently Had Not
 let Received Orders from st. Peters
 burg.
 St. Petersburg, July 24.-Grand Duke Alexis presided at yesterdays council, which Count Lamsdorff, the foreign secretary, and Vice Admiral Avellan, chief of the admiralty department, and other high officials attended.
 The result of the conference removes all doubt concerning the present atto- tude of Russia with regard to the vol unteer fleet. The validity of the view expressed in the British note regard ing the irregularity of the position of the council agrsed to waive the right of search.
 After long discussion in which Count Lamsdorff took leading part, 1t was decided that the present status of the volunteer fleet was not sufficient ly well defined according to internation- al law to render further searches and seizures advisable. and that therefore Russia, in the interests of friendly re- lations with the powers, should with draw the authority given the volunteer fleet in this respect,
 Orders have, consequently, been sent 10 the volunteer fleet steamers St. Pet ersburg and Smolensk to refrain from interference with foreign shipping.
 It is expected these steamers will eventually join the Baltic feet and be replaced by ordinary warships.
 The Associated Press is able to state on the highest authority that the Rus sian and British governments have agreed on a mutually satisfactory basis for settlement of the question of the status of Russian volunteer fleet steam CTS in the Red sea, and the seizure by them, of British ships. A few minor points still remain unsettled, but these probably will be cleared up tomorrow, and it is not expected that further complications will arise.
 Great credit for the satisfactory ter animation of this incident is due to For eign Secretary Count Lamsdorff, who, it is admitted, acted in the calm and conciliatory spirit worthy of great statesman. The attitude of Sir Charles Harding, the British ambassador, both for moderation and dignity, also evokes praise.
 Suez, July 24-It is rumored here that the Russian consul is about to charter an Egyptian steamer to con- vey orders to vessels of the Russian volunteer fleet to quit the Red sea forthwith.
 STEAMER SOANDIA RELEASED. Russia Acts Quickly in Case of Ham-i
 burg-American Liner.
 Port Said, July 24.-The Hamburg American line steamer Scandia has been released. The Russian crew which manned her has landed here and will proceed to Odessa by the next mail boat. The Scandia is awaiting orders from her owners.
 Berlin, July 24.A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that Russia, in re- sponse to Germanys protest sent a dispatch to Port Said to-day ordering the immediate release of the Hamburg American line steamer Scandia, which had arrived there and was awaiting instructions
 The official report of the seizure of the Scandia, received from the German consul at Suez, says that the Russian volunteer fleet steamer Smolensk en- countered the vessel at the Island of Perrin, in the straits of Babel Mandeb, and that she was seized, nothwith- standing the fact that her captain showed froIGl her manifest that there was no contrabrand of war on the Scandia Twenty-Five Russian officers and seamen were on board the Scan- dia when the report was sent, and it was the intention of the Russians that the passengers and portion of the German crew should be landed at Port Said