RUSSIA'S SHAME.
dogger bank atrocity. NARRATIVE OF ROZHDESTVENSKY'S CHIEF ENGINEER.
TRUSS ASSOCIATION - COPYRIGHT Received -1.1(3 August 11. B‘. Petersburg, August 11. The diary of M Politovsky, cx Admiral, Rozhdestvensky’s chief engineer, has just been published. It describes the Dogger Bank affair as follows : “ The Russian fleet suspected that there were Japanese torpedoers all around. “ We allowed a ship sighted ahead to come near. Wc then let 11,y- ---“ Words fail to describe the disgraceful action that followed. “ A small fishing vessel tossing helps lessly in the sea was made a target. We concentrated our guns on a second steamer and then a third one. They were helpless, There was not a soul on deck. “ The SuvaroiT did not lire at these, which were probably fishermen, but they were greatly to blame. They' ought at our approach to have abandoned their nets and hastened aside. “ The world will ring with this shameful outrage.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1832, 13 August 1906, Page 2
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