OPERATIONS AT SEA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8101, 3 October 1904, Page 2

OPERATIONS AT SEA.

DESTROYERS RETURN TO VLADI-

VOSTOK.

(Received October 3, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 2. Two destroyers have just returned to Vladivostok, after a short cruise. The Rossia and the Gromoboi remain in a battered condition, caused by the fight with Admiral Kamimura.

EXPECTING A DASH FROM PORT

ARTHUR.

(Received October 3. 8.50 a.m.) LONDON. October 2 German warships are cruising outside Kiaochau, and in the event of the Port Arthur ships attempting to reach Kiaochau they will be examined on the high seas, and it found seaworthy will be ad vised not to. ente* the port.

VOLUNTEER FLEET CRUISERS

SMOLENSK AND HER CONSORT LEAVE PORT SAID.

(Received October 2, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. The Russian Volunteer Fleet cruisers Smolensk and Petersburg, after coaling and provisioning, proceeded to Libau. (Received October 3, 1.2 a.m.) LONDON, October 2. The Smolensk and Petersburg arc at Algcricris (? Algeciras, a town in Spain, on tiie west side of the Bay of Gibraltar).