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Manawatu Herald, 3 November 1904, Page 2

THE LATEST.

ANOTHER EXPLANATION. British naval opinion is that the squadron misread the new signals. The two rearmost vessels of the port line ships probably got to the starboard side of starboard line and, moving quickly, they excited alarm and attracted their own consorts’ fire. Then perceiving their mistake they hastened to return to their places, this movement strengthening their belief that they were an enemy. Investigation is already eliciting some facts not reported by the Admiral in the first instance. Lord Salisbury, speaking at Liverpool, said the nation had been thoroughly satisfied to find the navy ready if required. Britain was complimented abroad for her firmness and self control. He would be sorry if foreign countries took their self control for weakness. He remembered only two or three occasions when Britain was desperately in earnest, and this was one of them. He hoped, now the acute please had passed, the others would be passed with equal success, with the f final result of an European, peace. A Reuter message states that all the Russian warships have left Vigo. . Reuter’s Gibraltar correspondent reports, that, Vice-Admiral lord Charles Beresford, who is in charge of the Channel Squadron, has suddenly ordered all.officers on leave to immediately rejoin their ships. THE CRISIS NOT OVER.; . Mr Walter Rothschild,, a'member of the House of Commons, speaking at Naphill, said the crisis was not over, since, if the result of the inquiry was equivocal or unsatisfac-tory-to the powers ; concerned,, war may ensue. A large meeting at Hamburg protested against the Russian’s brutal action in the North Sea and censured their cowardly conduct in abandoning the trawlers, and it hoped Britain would exadt reparation for the murder. Sir Thomas Barclay proposes to celebrate peace and mark the great and noble part played by France in the recent crisis by an ApgloFrench exhibition in 1906.