The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05
GOES TO COURT OF INQUIRY
DANGER OF WAR BETWEEN ENG
LAND AND RUSSIA AvERTED.
Question Of Responsibility for North
Sea Affair to Be Submitted
to Arbitration.

London, Oct. 29.-All danger of war
between Russia and Great Britain has
been averted, and the settlement Of
the only points in dispute regarding
the attack by the Russian second Pa
c!fic squadron on British trawlers Oc-
tober 81 has been referred to an in
tesnational commission under The
Hague convention.
Premier Balfour, speaking at .
meeting Of the national union of con-
servative clubs at Southampton Fri
day night, broke that silence which
had been SO long preserved and had
brought the people Of the United
Kingdom to a condition of almost
desperate irritation, and given rise to
misconceptions which Mr.. Balfour
himself exposed. THE Russian am
bassador." said Mr. Balfour. has au-
thorized statement to the following
effect: The Russian government, on
hearing Of the North sea incident, at
once expressed its profound regret,
and also promised most liberal COM
rensation. The government has Or
Gered the detention at Vigo of that
rart of the fleet which was concerned
IN the incident. in order that the
naval authorities might ascertain
what officers were responsible for it;
that those officers and any material
witnesses would not proceed on the
voyage to the far east; that inquiry
would be instituted into the facts by
an international commission as pro-
viGed by The Hague convention. That,
MIR. Balfour interpolated, had nothing
to do with arbitration. 1t was the
constitution of an International com.
mission in order to find out the facts,
ana any person found guilty would be
tried and punished adequately. The
Russian government undertook that
precautions would be taken to guard
against recurrence of such incidents.
Special instructions on this subject
would be issued
Preliminary to this court, said Mr..
Balfour, there would be the coroner's
/, inquest at Hull over the dead fisher
men, board of trade inquiry and an
inquiry by Russian officials at Vigo.
The board OF trado inquiry would be
specially constituted by the British
government to include representative
men, The Russian embassy had been
asked to send a representative and
| give assistance. Apology and COM
pcnsation having already been offered.
nothing now remains but to determine
which account is correct Rojcstven-
sky's or the trawlers. Mr. Balfour
plainly said that Thursday evening
Russia and Great Britain seemed to be
Gu the brink of war, and yet gave the
lrankest praise TO the attitude pre-
served throughout by the emperor
ard Russian government
London, Nov. 2.-There has been no
expression OF dissatisfaction on the
part OF the British government at the
! departure of the Russian squadron
from Vigo, and while no official in
formation had been given out by any
OF the departments up to Tuesday aft
ernoon, the press has reason to believe
that the situation is not serious.
The foreign Office issued statement
Tuesday afternoon announcing that it
las received official information of
the detachment of four officers from
the British squadron, and that the
Russian government has issued strict
orders to the squadron to protect all
neutral commerce.
Vigo. Spain, Nov. All the Rus
Sian warships left here at eight o'clock
Tuesday morning. The Russian SQUAD
ron was followed by the Spanish
CI uiser EXtremadura