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Saturday, 25 September 2021

Cargo of British steamship Kalchas partly seized by Russia according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 15 September 1904

An item dated Vladivostok 14 September reported that the prize court released the British steamship Kalchas with the neutral cargo except for the 300 sacks flour and 53 cotton bales destined for Japan which were seized.

Note
1. Between 8 February 1904 and 5 September 1905 were the Japanese and Russian empires in war and which was disastrous for the latter. Both empries had heavy human losses and the world sighted the destruction of a major European naval power by an Asian empire.