THE CZAR’S CRUISE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9477, 21 June 1909, Page 5

THE CZAR’S CRUISE.

THE CZAR AND THE KAISER. United Press Association —I3y ElecTelegraph—Copyright. London, June 20. In connection with the meeting of the Czar and the Kaiser, a banquet was held aboard the Standart. Speaking in French, the Monarchs exchanged hearty assurances of traditional friendship and mutual crust, the Czar remarking that this was a pledge of the good relations between the conn tries and for general peace.

FIRING ON BRITISH VESSEL

RUSSIAN EXCUSES

Received Jane 21, 8.15 a.m.

St Petersburg, June 20.

The Russians blamed the Woodburn’s Finnish pilot for having failed to pass outside the squadron anchored in shore, thus infringing the regulations.

The Novoe Vremya states that the torpedoera acted in conformity with law and instructions.

Reuter states that the Czar sent the firemen twenty pounds. The Daily News says that nobody aboard the Woodbnrn spoke Russian and they were unable to understand the shouts summoning them to heave to

St. Petersburg, June 20,

The Russian Admiralty declares that the British Board of Trade notice to marines was published in January, and in April a translation of the regulations applying to merchantmen approaching naval anchorages in the Finnish Skerries. The Woodbarn entered the guarded zone and disregarded three blank shots.