THE BALTIC FLEET.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1904, Page 5

THE BALTIC FLEET.

CANAL DUES. * LONDON, 3rd December. The colliers coaling Admiral Itozhdestvensky's fleet ast Swakopmund (German South-west Africa) include nine German and two British vessels. Rear-Admiral Foelkersam'e fleet paid £14,700 hi canal dues in making the passage of the Suez Canal. The military critic who writes for the Novoe Vremya says that the warships at ; Port Arthur and Vladivostock will be unable to assist the Baltic fleet, which must rely on its own resources. STEAMER RELEASED. LONDON, 2nd December. The Brjtish steamer Calchas, 5478 tons, which was captured by the Vladivostock squadron on 25th July, and Conveyed to Vladivostock, has been released under bail, and has sailed for Nagasaki. THE ARABIA. (Received December 5, 8.40 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 4th December. The Prize Court has released 5000 sacks of flour seized aboard the steamer Arabia. [The Arabia was seized by the Vladivostock Squadron on the 25th of July, and liberated by the Vladivosfock Prize Court on the sth of August, but the Court confiscated all the railway material and flour which were consigned to Japanese ports.] CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. (Received December 5, 8.40 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 4th December. The German owners of the Teo are claiming £39,000 damages. [The Teo, carrying a full cargo of fish from America to Yokohama, was sunk by the Vladivostock Squadron on the 3rd August. The Prize. Court considered her a lawful prize because she had been chartered by & Japanese company and was running regularly between Japanese ports.] ____________