An item dated London 21 December reported that the Japanese cruiser Tuscola (1) stopped the steamship Negretia underway towards Vladivostok suspecting she was loaded with contraband and further more transporting Russian officers and sailors of the destroyers which escaped from Shanghai. (2)
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1. This must be the cruiser Tsushima of the Nitaka-class, laud down on 1 October 1901 at the Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan, launched on 15 December a year later, completed on 14 February 1904, stricken in 1936, until 1 April 1939 serving as the training hulk Hai Kan No. 10 at the Yokosuka Naval District intul she was used in 1944 as a torpedo target.
2. On the website digicoll.library.wisc.edu is a among other documents the United Department of State/Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States with the annual message of the president transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905 published. Page 585 mentioned the merchantman Negretia and two Russian officers which tried to escape with her, namely the commanding officer of the Rastorpny Powel Mikhailowich Plen and sub lieutenant Klawdy Balentinowich Seloiw. Another Dutch newspaper De Tijd dated 21 December mentioned that she was seized by the Tsoesjima off 
