CONTRABAND COAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7936, 5 March 1904, Page 2

CONTRABAND COAL.

SUEZ CANAL NOT TO BE UTILISED. COLLISION uITrHE CANAL. Received 4, 10 p.m. *" ' . LONDON, March 4. lne Marquis of Lansdowne, in a letter • in reply ,to enquiries by the Exit Cor- • poration, stated that coal for Russia and Japan would be considered contraband of • war. A hundred and fifty thousand tons ' of coal for the Far East, ordered in February, is being shipped at Cardiff. Japan ordered an additional seventy thousand tons to be shipped in March and April. Round the Cape shippers propose to clear for Hongkong, intending to confine the risk to between Hongkong and Japanese ports. , Received 4, 10.5 p.m. ' rru n -, m *£ NN P 0N > Mar c Q 4. ' The Council of Ministers at Cairo decided that fr f om the 12th belligerents willnot be permitted to escort captured prizes through the Suez' Canal or into Egyptian ports or waters. Hence the Russians will be unable to convey to Russia for adjudication any prizes from the East except round the Cape. The decision contributed to the recent release of the British cblj heri captured by Russian*. The Council protests that Russian warships are overtaking the time embodied in Egypt's neutrality regulations. A Russian torpedoer collided with and ' sank an Egyptian -revenue cutter. The canal will be blocked at least a day. The cruiser Oslayba and the torpedoer baratoft are moored at the scene of the collision. Received 4, 10.5 l p.m. . m LONDON, March 1 4. „ -lne Kussians are entrenching at An- '■ wing, where they have fourteen guns. General Inowy 9 , with Korea's consent, has proclaimed martial law in Seoul.