THE BALTIC FLEETS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 287, 8 December 1904, Page 2

THE BALTIC FLEETS.

ROZHDESTVENSKY MAKES ADMISSIONS. CROOKED RUSSIAN SHOOTING. LONDON, Dec. 0. Admiral Rozlidi-stvuisky, in supplementary reports, admits that live Russian Shots hit Hie Aurora, and slightly wounded a petty officer and seriously wounded tho clvaplaJn, who died at Tangiers. The Times suya it is clear the battleship Kniaz Suvaroft* fired on tihe Amitu Dunskoi and Aurora in mistake for un enemy's torpedu boats, COALING OPERATIONS. FRENCH COLLIER HELPING AT TANGIERS. LONDON, Dec. 0. The Ttussian Fleet is at Jibutil, in Fnnch Somaliland. Russian colliers are ~..>iing the llaltic Fleet ■at Mushu ....... (h>, between Jibutil und o'bok, in ti. Straits of Ilal)-el-Munideb. A French hulk, flying the Moorish flag, is coaling the squadron at Tangiers. RUSSIAN RODOMONTADE. QUEER HINTS OF SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. (Received Dec. 7, 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 7. A Kussian statesman has communicated to the Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent the secret history of the Dogger Hank negotiations, showing that they were strained to snapping point. The Czar, on returning and iinding that Lord Lansdowno would not yield an inch, sanctioned the draft convention, which Count; LumsdorfT had originally accepted subject to slight modifications.