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WAR APPENDIX

11.	British steamships Menelaus and Crewe Hall stopped south of Jiddah by Russian volunteer cruiser St. Petersburg.

Japanese Occupy Yin Kow
13.	Japanese occupy Yin Kow, and move towards New Chwang; Nodzu's army occupied Simuchen, 20 miles east of Hai-Cheng.
	British steamer Malacca stopped by St. Petersburg in Red Sea and taken back to Suez.
14.	Announcement that the Baltic fleet will sail for the Far East.
15.	Steamship Priz Heinrich stopped by Smolensk and mails seized.
16.	British steamship Hipsang sunk by Russian destroyer in Gulf of Pechili.
17.	Attack by General Count Keller on the Motien position fails.
18.	Germany protests against the Russian seizure of mails from the Heinrich.
	Japanese cruiser Haiyen sunk by mine in Pigeon Bay; 250 drowned.
19.	Steamship Scandia stopped in Red Sea and taken back to Suez.
	Preliminary Japanese attack on Liao-Yang repulsed.
20.	Vladivostock squadron passes Tsugaru Straits into the Pacific, pursued by Japanese torpedo flotilla.
	British ambassador in St. Petersburg makes formal protest against the seizure of the Malacca, and requests her immediate release.
21.	Russia says she will release the Malacca if wrongfully seized.
24.	Order issued recalling the Russian volunteer cruisers Smolensk and St. Petersburg, their war status being questioned.
	Russians begin evacuation of New Chwang.
	Japanese pushing Russians out of their positions south of Liao-Yang.
	British steamer Knight Commander sunk by Vladivostock squadron off Idzu.
	British steamer Formosa seized in the Red Sea and taken back to Suez.

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