The Archive · 1902

Naval! Intelligence

The warships keep flocking in,: and our streets are lively with Jack ashore. On the 4th inst. the British cruiser Terrible arrived from Weihaiwei; on the 6th, the Austrian gunboat Aspern arrived from Shanghai; on the 7th, the Russian battleships Dimitri Donskoy and Vladimir Mon-mach came down from Nagasaki, and the British gunboat Pigmy from Shanghai; on the 8th inst.. the Chinese gunboat Wantai arrived from Shanghai, The departures have been less numerous: they were:—On the 4th inst., the French cruiser Chasse-loup Laubat for Saigon, the Russian craig ser Sissoi Veliky for Manila, and the German gunboat Tiger for Bangkok; and on the 8th inst. the Austrian gunboat Aspern for Macao.

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