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Saturday, 19 May 2012

Russia buying Argentinean warships with Bulgarian assistance according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 27 June 1905

An item suggested that the correspondent at Sofia of the newspaper Daily at Chronicle should have confirmed that the Russian cabinet via Bulgaria bought Argentinean warships consisting of four cruisers and three destroyers.(1) Russian sailors were to take over these Bulgarian flagged ships after their arrival off the coast of New Guinea and which left Libau [Liepāja, Latvia] for that purpose. The Russian cabinet awarded the Bulgarian cabinet for her assistance while supplying rolling-stock manufactured at Klopino with a value of 5.000.000 rubles for the Bulgarian railway company.

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 empires had heavy human losses and the world sighted the destruction of a major European naval power by an Asian empire.