Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-25

daliying; that there must be no delay and no limit set by Russia to her apol- ogy or the extent of compensation for sufferers by what King Edward him. self terms the unwarrantable action" of the Baltic squadron coinmanders.
 Tie king message of sympathy to the mayor of Hull was as follows:
 .gThe king commands me to say that he has heard with profound sorrow of the unwarrantable action which has been committed against the North sea fishing feet and asks you to express the deepest sympathy Of the queen and his majesty with the families of those who have suffered from this most la- mentable occurrence" The deep resentment Of the whole British public, however, is reflected by the incident at the Victoria station on the arrival of Count Benkendorff, the Russian ambassador, from the conti- nent, where he was booted and other hostile demonstrations made against him by crowd There is no attempt anywhere among men of responsibility to magnify the occurrence into delih- crate act of war, but ill view of the present inability to find an explanation there is being poured upon the heads of the officers of the squadron n flood of invective and insinuation, though incompetence first and thereafter com plete panic is the most generally ac- cepted explanation.
 Thus far no official word has been received from St. Petersburg as to the attitude of the Russian government. At the Russian embassy it was stat cd that .'the whole affair was so obvi- ously a mistake, from whatever cause. that Russia's course was plainly dic- tated-nameIy, apology and ample com- pensatiOn.' p
 All eyes are now turned toward St. Petersburg, awaiting word from the Russian government.
 King Edward has sent to the mayor of Hull S1,000 as his donation for the l families of the victims of the North sea firing.
 l Premier BaIfoM has telegraphed the mayor of Hull as follows: Your tele- grams received. You may have full confidence in the governments action. < I At the inquest at Hull it was stated that one vessel, the Crane, was sunk and that four or five were more or less ] damaged. Tn the statement of the cor oner to the jury that official said it was a question of very grave and pos sibly international importance, but 1t would be their duty to find who were the murderers of the dead men. The captain of the Swift said that 1 the Russians gave not the slightest warning prior to the commencement oi l the firing The admiral of the fishing l fleet sent up q rocket of warning and then the firing commenced. He again l sent up four green rockets, but this only seemed to increase the sferocity Q. I the bombardlnent. The poor marks manship of the Russian gunners was 1 the only thing that saved the entire I fleet within range of the searchlights and guns.
 Midnight adyices from St. Peters
 burg say that no official Russian c.t
 planation of the unfortunate affair of
 Dogger bank has been issued yet. ans
 the world must wait to hear Vice Ad
 miral Rojestvensky' version of the fir
 ing upon the British fishermen. Rojest
 vensky hss communicated direct t
 the emperor. The admiralty has an
 nounced that it had not yet receive
 report At the same hour the foreigl
 office issued statement expressin
 the ragreta of thesgovecnment fas 4th