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Sunday, 12 May 2019

Russian warships visiting France for coal and water according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 25 October 1904

An item reported that at Cherbourg the Russian transport Korea and three torpedo boats arrived, the first for coal and the latter for water and then to depart again. This seemed to be done without ignoring the French neutrality.

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.