Dogger Bank Outrage.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3700, 14 August 1906, Page 3

Dogger Bank Outrage.

RUSSIAN ENGINEER’S DIARY. CANDID DESCRIPTION OF A SHOCKING SCENE. St. Petersburg, Aug, 12. The diary has been published of M, Politovsky, who was chief engineer on Admiral Rozhdestvensky’s battleship Kniaz Suvaroff, the flagship of the fleet which made the famous voyage from the Baltic to the East, and was annihilated by the Japanese at Tsushima, Referring to the attack on the Hull trawlers in the vicinity of the Dogger Bank fishing grounds (when the steamer Crane was sunk, two other boats injured, two men killed, and others injured), M. Politovsky says ; ‘ ‘ The Russian fleet suspected that Japanese torpedo boats, were all round us. When the ships were sighted ahead, we allowed them to come near. We then let fly. “ Words fail to describe the disgraceful action that followed. One small fishing vessel, tossing helplessly on the sea. was made a target on which we concentrated our guns. The second and third steamers Were helpless, and there was not a soul on deck. The Kniaz Suvaroff did not fire on these. “Probably the vessels were fishing steamers, but they were greatly to blame. They ought at our approach to have abandoned their nets and hastened aside. The world will ring with the story of this shameful outrage.”