Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-07-27
THE BRITISH |NCENSED
The Seizure of English Ships by
Russia Condemned.
WarIike Tone OF Such Papers az the
Times, Standard, Morning Post
and the Daily Telegraph Has
Had Its Effect.

London, July PA press repre-
sentative Wednesday night interview
ed many prominent persons connected
II close touch with the government rel
alive to the seizure OF British vessels
by the steamers OF the Russian volun-
teer fleet in the Red Sea- As result
Of these Inquiries there is shown TO be
remarkable hostile feeling against
Russia of a strength and bitterness
almost without precendent since the
Crlmean war. Even the most conserv-
alive who have been in the service OF
the government for many years, and
who openly deplored the haste with
which they though Great Britain mad
plunged into the Transvaal war. We'd
nesday night frankly declared for a
policy OF reprisal against what is re.
garded here as Russia's violation OF
treaty and her piratical attack on
British commerce.
The warlike tone of such papers as
the Times, the Standard. the Morning
Post and the Daily Telegram, while
in national crisis hitherto almost in
varibly advised caution, has had its
inevitable effect. There has been stir.
red up storm of Indignation among
all classes in the United Kingdom,
and the strength of which the govern
ment itself can scarcely guage.
Those who deplored the outbreak of
the war between Japan and Russia are
now among the most outspoken cham
pions of a physical force that will
DrpVpnt tho raDptitiop of tho Malarco
incident in the Red Sea.
Those few officials at the foreign
Office who are in full possession of all
the details of Great Britain's desire to
arrive at an entente with Russia are
In despair. They realize that the pol
icy so carefully fostered by King Ed
ward and Foreign Minister IGnsdowne
will now be Indignantly repudiated by
I'll parties in the house OF commons
and involve with the pubic the down
TALL of any ministry advocating it.
Every nerve will be strained, how.
ever, by the foreign Ldice, to secure
from Russia an explanation that will
racify the aggrieved feelings of the
British public, and no step will be
taken officially that will tend 10 pre-.
JUDGE subsequent diplomatic negotia-
tons looking to the settlement of all
questions now outstanding between
Russia and Great Britain.
However there is expressed at the for
eiSn Office and elsewhere almost poig-
nant regret that Russia rightly or
wrongly should have taken up the po-
sition evinced by the action of her
volunteer cruisers in the Red Sea.
Special dispatches from Malta give
alarmist accounts of the hurried de-
parture from that port of the British
cruiser and torpedo squadrons
The captain of the Malacca asserts
that the capture was made within the
three mile limit.
The midshipman commanding this
prize, which has set Europe by the
ears and almost threatens conse-
quences more serious than the actual
war in the far east. ordered 400 tons of
coal at Port Said, but the officials re-
fused to supply the coal on the
ground that the vessel had q supply
sufficiently ample to take her to the
Black Sea.
st. Petersburg, July 21-The news
chat Great Britain has delivered to
Russia a protest against the capture
of The peniusular and Oriental steam.
er Malacca in terms which are believed
10 be almost tantamouut to demand
for the immediate release of the vessel
as we'll as a general protest against
the action of the Russian volunteer
fleet steamers in stopping ships in the
Red sea, was not generally known here
Wednesday night, but Wednesday
mornings editorial broadside from the
London newspapers reprinted here
Wednesday afternoon was a sufficient
warning Of the state of the British
mind and the public became greatly
excited.
in the hotels and restaurants the
war was temporarily forgotten and
nothing excepting the possibility OF
complications with Great Britain was
talked Of
Provided a blunder has not been
made by the captain Of the ST. Peters.
burg in mistaking British government
stores for contraband of wal. Russia
viii probably be prepared to maintain
tie justics of the seizure. but If
mistake has been made. the govern.
ment doubtless will order the Malacca
TO be set at liberty and pay the bill
for her Illegal detention.