Colliers to run the blockade of Port Arthur lying ready at Tsingtao acccording to the Dutch newspaper Soerabaijasch handelsblad dated 24 September 1904

An item referred to a telegram from Tsingtao [then theGerman leased Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory, nowadays Qingdao, China] reporting that there some colliers were fitted out with the purpose to run through the Japanese blockade of Port Arthur.

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1. Russo-Japanese War 8 February 1904-5 September 1905