Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-31
VIGO INQUIRY OPENS.
Czar Wants Clearest Light on
 North Sea Incident.
QUEEN AEDEMPRESS WORK FORPEACE

QUEEN AND EMPRESS WORK FOR PEACE Said That Delcasse, French Foreign
 Minister, Planned Settlement Be-
 tween Britain and Russia Ac-
 ceptabIe to Both Nations.
 LONDON, Oct. 31.-r-A dispatch from Madrid says that the Russian inquiry Into the North sea affair opened at Vi go yesterday.
 St. Petersburg advices say that For eign Minister Lamsdorff's telegram to Count Benkendorff, the Russian am bassador to Great Britain, and the ambassadors reply thereto has been published and is as follows:
 In desire to bring everything that occurred in the North sea into the dearest light possible our monarch considers it beneficial to submit the affair to an international commission of inquiry, on the basis of The Hague convention, for thorough investigation. Your excellency is directed by imperial command to propose this means of set clement of the question to the British government
 To this Count Benkendorff replied:
 T have communicated your excellen- cy's telegram to Lord Lansdowne. The British government accepts the pro- posal to submit the North sea incident in all it's extent to examination by an international commission, as provided for by The Hague convention"
 A Tangier dispatch says that i've Russian torpedo boat destroyers have put to sea from that port. The re- mainder of the fleet is coaling and pro- visioning there.
 A Copenhagen report says that the North sea affair caused the deepest anxiety to King Christian of Denmark, who declared that should an Anglo Russian war result it would be the cause of his death. The dowager em- press of Russia promised her father, the king, to use her greatest efforts to prevent conflict. It is stated that hundreds of dispatches were exchang- ed between the dowager empress and the queen of Great Britain during the week and that the two sisters render ed great service in the cause of peace.
 The world will doubtless take par- kicular satisfaction in according Elm peror Nicholas, to whose initiative The Hague convention owed it's existence, the honor and credit of having propos- ed an honorable solution of the North sea incident, which might have plung- ed Russia and Great Britain into war, by an appeal to its rules. Neyerthe- less it is learned on very high authori- ty that this diplomatic triumph be- longs to M. Delcasse, the French for eign minister.
 The British cruiser Lancaster, which was at vigo for some time on Satur- day, departed in the evening after her commander had conferred with Vice Admiral RoJestvensky on board the Russian flagship Kniaz Souvaroff. She returned on Sunday, and there was an- ether conference between. the British and Russian naval commanders on board the flagship of the latter. Sub Bequently Admiral Rojestvensky went pn board the Lancaster before she sail ed for villagarcia, where, it is suppos- ed, the British channel fleet has as- sembled.
 Gerald Balfour, president of the board of trade, has appointed Admiral Sir CypriAn Bridge and Butler As pinall, barrister-at-Iaw, who practices mainly in the admiralty court, to con- duct the North sea inquiry at Hull.
 There are i've British warships cruis- Ing of Vigo, evidently keeping within observation of the Russian vessels there ~
 Naval reports show that British war vessels are so disposed as to keep a sharp watch on all movements along the proposed route of the Russian Ball. tic squadron, including the Canary is- lands, where the Russians have pre- pared elaborate arrangements for coal ing from German steamers Admiral Rojestvensky's four battleships remain at Vigo; but, according to some re- ports, the firing in the North sea was done by Admiral yoelkersam's squad ron, which is now at Tangier.
 Admiral Rojestvensky. when inter viewed at vigo, declared he could say nothing at present about the inquiry. Ten battleships and cruisers, he said, were now at Tangier, and the remain der of his fleet would stay at Vigo un- til further orders from St. Petersburg. The admiral reiterated the absolute truth of his version of the trawler incl dent. It is suggested that an effort is being made to conceal the fact that Rojestvensky fired on his own ships.
 King and Cxar Rejoice.
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