An item reported that Balfour the British House of Commons informed that the Russian warship Dmitri Donskoi bunkered 600 ton coal at Port Saïd, Egypt and that her captain steam directly towards Cadiz, Spain bound for Kronstadt. In the three days following his departed he stopped however 6 merchant ships including two British checking their papers. In the opinion of the British cabinet should to every ship which used the coals she bunkered for another purpose than was the intention no coalbunker facilities more to be offered.(2)
Notes
1. Armoured cruiser, laid down at the New Admiralty Shipyard, St. Petersburg, Russia on 21 May 1881, launched on 30 August 1883, completed begin 1885 and scuttled after the battle of Tsushima on 29 May 1905.
2. The Russo-Japanese war between 8 February 1904-5 September 1905.
