Ina short time work will be commenced on the building of 5 new first class Russian battleships, all of the same type, which are to have a displacement of 12,000 tons each, with a speed of 19 knots per hour. These warships are to be built at Russian shipbuilding yards At the Baltic shipbuilding yards, a keel will shortly be laid for a fast cruiser, the speed of which will be 26 knots. The armament of this cruiser will-oonsist exclusively of quick-firing guns.
The Naval Department hax placed another order in Germany for the building of a 2nd class cruiser of the improved Work has already been begun hau Docks in Elbing, Gerntany, where the Novyk was also built. The new cruiser will be of 3,000. tons displacement 18,000 I.H.P., and will have a speed of 25 knots.
Pacific Squadron Movements.
A number of warships of the Russian Pucifie juadron now anchored at Viadivostock, will leave here in a few days, and it ix said that only the first-class cruisers Rossia and Admiral Nachimotf are to remain here for the winter.
There are at present on the way to the Far East to join the Russian fleet in the Pacific 2 battleships, 4 first-class cruisers, 6 torpedo-boats and 2 transports.
18th October.
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