NAVAL COURTS DECISION.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1904, Page 5

NAVAL COURTS DECISION.

(Received August 24, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd August. The Shanghai Naval Court has decided that the dewtroyer Raztoropui torpedoed tho llipsang without just cause. The veasol had no contraband, and was quietly voyaging from Niuchwang to Chefoo with lights burning and the British flag flying. BRITISH STEAMER STOPPED. LONDON, 23rd August. A cruisor, supposed to be the Smolensk (one of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, recently in the Red Sea), stopped the British steamer Comediau near Durban. After examining the Comedian's papers the cruiser allowed her to proceed. The Times comments on bad faith, if the cruiser was really the Smolensk, and asks where she coaled in voyaging south. Another account from Durban says the cruiser was a former German steamer. MOBILISATION OF RESERVISTS. LONDON, 23rd August. A ukase, ordering the mobilisation of reservists in sixty districts, and all reserve officers in tho Empire, nne profoundly impressed tho Russians. THE NAVAL DISASTERS. In view of the recent naval disasters, it is interesting At tho present moment to

indicate the losses sustained by both sides. RUSSIA'S LOSSBB. Battleships. — — - Tsnrcvitch, 13,110 tons, 732 men: Severely damaged; now in Kiaochau Harbour. Retvizan, 12,700 tons, 732 men: Damaged ; believed to be in Port Arthur. Poltava, 10,960 tons, 700 men: Damaged; believed to bo in Port Arthur. Petropavlovsk, 10,950 tons, 800 men: Sunk by mine 13th April. Pobioda, 12,674 tons, 732 mon: Damaged ; believed to be in Port Arthur. Sevastopol, 10,960 tons, 700 men : Damaged; believed to be in Port Arthur. Peresviet, 12,764 tons, 732 men: Damaged; believed to be in Port Arthur. Cruisers. Rurik, 10,923 tons, 768 men: Sunk off Tsushima, 14th August. Variug, 6500 tons, 571 men; Sunk 9th Februgiy. Pallada, 6630 tons, 422 men: Reported to have been sunk on 10th August. Novik, 3200 tons, 310 men: Ashore, badly damaged, at Knrakovik. «Asko!d, 6100 tons, 500 men: Severely damaged; now at Shanghai The gunboat Grosovoi is also at the same port. Diana, 6630 tons, 422 men: Slightly damaged at Saigon (French Cochin China). Boyarin, 3200 tons, 234 men: Sunk by mine 12th February. Gromoboi, 12,130 tons, 814 men: Damaged off Tsushima, L4tH August, and returned to Vladivostock. RoMia, 12,130 tons, 725 men: Damaged off Esushima, 14th August, and returned to Vladivostock. Destroyers, Gunboats, and Others. Koreitz, gunboat, 1213 tons: Sunk 9th February. Yenesi, torpedo transport, 2500 tons: Sunk by mine, 11th February. Vnusiiitclin, destroyer: Sunk by ehell 24th February. Steregustchi, destroyer: Sunk by shell 10th March. Bezetrashini, destroyer: Sunk by shell 13th April. Reclntclin: Captured by the Japanese at Chefoo, 14th August. Boorni, 350 tons : Blown up near Wai-hei-wai, 14th August. JAPAN'S LOSSES. Battleship. Hntfluse-, 15,000 tons, 743 men.- Sunk by mine, 15th May. Cruiser. Yoshino, 4180 tons, 360 men : Sunk in collision, 15th May. Torpedo Boats, etc. ,Jf o< 48> torpedo boat: Sunk by mine, 12th May. Mikayo, despatch steamer, 1800 tons: Sunk by mine, 14th May.