BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1929, Page 1

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

SOME ANCIENT HISTORY. DOGGER BANK INCIDENT RECALLED. (United Press Association—By Electro Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) 'LONDON, May 21. The fourth volume of the British document on the origin of the Avar has been published by the Stationary Office. It deals almost entirely Avith AngloRussian relations and tells lully and frankly the story of the negotiations culminating in the Anglo-Russian convention in August, 1907, Avhich avus the turning point of European history. It came to he regarded as inevitable that Britain pud Russia should be found in opposing camps. There avus no place in Asia in Avhicli their interests did not collide. The volume reveals the nearness of an Anglo-Russian Avar billowing the Dogger Bank incident m October, 1907. Britain insisted on a preliminary inquiry before the Russian fleet passed Gibraltar. Russia demurred, on Avhicli Lord Lnmlsdownc warned the Russian Ambassador:' IJ the fleet is allowed t continue Avitliout calling at Vigo, we might find ourselves at Avar before the. Aveek is over.” Instructions avcTc son L to the \ ice Admiral at Gibraltar to stop the Lalli' Fleet, “by persuasion, if possible, by force, if necessary.” Fortunately, Russia yielded.