The Dogger Bank Outrage.

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 14, 15 November 1904, Page 2

The Dogger Bank Outrage.

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LONDON, Monday,

S’r Robert Anderson, late Chief of the Criiiiinal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard, writing to the “Times,” attributes the Dogger Back attack to the » Russians having been scared by cosmopolitan adventurers offering to them what they alleged to be confidential information in return for secret service tuonev.

The “ standard ’’ says that letters received from the officers of the Baltic fleet tend to confirm the statements raadw tliat the Russian warships attacked each other at Dogger Bank. The captain of* the Russian protected cruiser Aurora has written a letter to his wife, in which he supplies the key to the Dogger Bank attack. He says that the Aurora and the protected cruiser Iznturad suffered from* the fire of other ships of the fleet. Twirt cruisers had got considerably off the course, and, as the signals of the new code were not understood, they kept moving in various directions and in such a manner as would naturally appear suspioicus, especially since the vessels were without lights.

The “ St. Petersburg Novoe Vremya ” characterises as an absurd falsehood Landsdowne's and Brodnck’s statement that Russia had given assurances that the officers of the Baltic fleet would be punished if guilty. The “Svet” says that the Czar’s last telegram could not be addressed to an admiral guilty of even negligence.