Kobe, 5th May.
Mr. A. W. Curtis, Editor of the "Kobe Herald," has been fined. The prosecution was the result of a statement in his leading article on the 27th ult, that the squadron in the Sea of Japan had left Chinhai-wan the week before. He has appealed—Our own correspondent.
The following was the offending paragraph, but no offence could well be slighter: " Vice-Admiral Kamimura's fine homogeneous squadron of six armoured cruisers is somewhere in the Japanese Sea—it was reported to have left Chinhaiwan six or seven days ago, presumably for Vladivostock or the near neighbourhood, it being obviously necossary that the enemy's squadron at Viadivostock should be either bottled up or smashed up."—En.
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