Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-07-21
BRITAIN CALLS HALT
Emperor Does Not Approve
 of Red Sea Seizures
NALACCgS BRITISH CREW PRISONERS
Wcasel Carried No Contrnband oI War-London Deeply Stirred by Outrage on English ship
 and Flag.

LONDON, July 21--A special from St. Petersburg says that the Emperor Nicholas, in an interview with Count Eamsdorff; the foreign minister, has expressed his displeasure at the turn events have taken and at the possibility of complications with Great Britain arising ou N5f the detention of British ships by the Russian volunteer fleet Steamers in the Red sea.
 This pacific attitude will doubtless lead to an immediate and amicable ad- kustnent of the difficulties.
 Sir Charles Hardinge, the British hmbassador to Russia, in behalf of his government, has presented a strong protest to Russia against the seizure in the Red sea and detention of the Penin- eular and Oriental steamer Malacca, which was carrying 300 tons of British government stores for the naval estab- 1ishment at Hongkong, each case of which was marked with the broad ar row, which is the government stamp.
 The ambassador also presented a general protest against the action of the Russian volunteer fleet steamers an the Red sea.
 A special Tokyo dispatch says:
 ''At 9:30 a. m. July 20 the Vladivo- Btok squadron fired on and sunk Jap anese steamboat of SIS tons off the coast of Tsoya, about twenty-five miles from Hakodate. All of the crew were landed safely at Cape Yesan."
 A dispatch from Port Said says:
 "The Peninsular and Oriental line steamship Malacca, which was seized 1n the Red sea by the steamship St Petersburg of the Russian volunteer fleet has arrived, flying the Russian nag and manned by a Russian prize crew, consisting of captain, four off cers and forty-ive men.
 "The ship is detained by the Suez canal authorities, wno will await in- structions before taking further ac- ton"
 The British crew are prisoners and were not allowed to communicate with the shore.
 The British captain protested several times against the Russians action in seizing his vessel and was threatened with arrest.
 Complaints of their treatment were made by the passengers.
 Libau. on the Baltic, is the Malacca's 8 destination
 The Malacca carried no contraband of war for Japan. Her cargo of 5000 tons included forty tons of explosives consigned to Hongkong.
 A later dispatch from Port Said says that the captain of the Malacca pro- tested strongly against the seizure of his, ship by the Russians and refused to lower his flag, mailing it to the mast Russian sailors, at the command of one of their officers, tore it down, the captain still protesting
 It was reported on the Baltic Ex- change that the Malacca had been pre- vented from leaving Port Said by ships of the British Mediterranean squadron.
 Sir Thomas Sutherland, chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental company said that the company was entirely in the dark as to the cause of the Rus sian seizure of the Malacca.
 There is growing here a remarkably hostile feeling against Russia, of a strength and a bitterness almost with out precedent since the Crimean war. Even the most conservative who have been in the service of the government for many years and who openly de- plored the haste with which they thought Great Britain had plunged into the Transvaal war, frankly de- clare for policy of reprisaI against what is regarded here as Russia's vio- lation of treaties and her piratical at tack on British commerce.
 The warlike tone of such papers as the Times, the Standard, the Morning Post and the Daily Telegraph, which in national crises hitherto almost in variably advised caution, has had it's Inevitable effect There has been stirred up storm of indignation among all classes in the United King dom, the strength of which the gov ernment itself can scarcely gauge.
 Those who deplored the outbreak of the war between Japan and Russia and insisted publicly and privately that Great Britain crippled financial ly after her South African experiences, must net at all costs be drawn into