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Show NEVK A ON CRUlSp Russia Naval Officer So Remarks, P Cadets on Vosssl Did No Know They Were on & Board Ship. j Baltic Pleet "Will Not Bo Keady ft $ Service Before Nex October. J 5 ST. PETERSBURG. Mnr 2-Al though work Is being pushed nlgw and day to prepare tho Bal!r flee if for service. It is fearr l rov th I, it cannot be ready to a!l for the- A ) East before October. Th dny c Kldered especially unfortunate. In vWr . of tho situation at Port Arthur, wjA the arrival of the lleet before tho fi..a the fortress would compel thi rntifly of the siege. Pit4 ' It has been found nerearv tovW I the battleship Orel, which rc-ntlv aarjfe at her moorings at Constradt. olng 1 her sea valves being left open, nr.i wjjJ subsequently floated, and on uM'h ai explosion, killing ten stnknj. U3r a leged to have afterward o. r;rr-j, i dry dock, and possibly she m.ij not aej company th Baltic fleet to the far Last Thero Is no Intention of purchasing any South American warnhlps offerea by private firms. Nelth.r has Russfsi any Intention of buying foreign meJ j chantmen for transport purpos? FouV i Hamburg-American liners nrw bc ighi by the merchant marine, department and turned over to the navj to br om I part of the volunteer lleet. 3 Twenty transports will a cmpan the Baltic fleet, carrying o-il aminujK uttlon and stores. Thero will nlstfi repair, wator condensing and hcHpltajfl ships. Altogether slxty-uo pennunti I will go out under Vlce-Admlral Rojea-tvensky. Rojea-tvensky. S Admiral Blrlleff. the naval command? cr at Cronstadt, Is becoming celebrated! for hla remarkable order of ihe dayl One issued this morning ' I v I un ited the echoolnhlp Nevka and did not find her captain or lleuten uf Twa midshipmen In charge f fifti cadet's did not know how to turn out and lute the Admiral. They did not kno wherefore they were on hoard, Go1 saA'e tho Nevka on a cruif " M Tho Russians are so conunred of thj efficiency of submarine boats that nanny of the wealthiest and innsr influential people have formed an an i"on ts promote the construction of of that class as being "ideal dofonalv craft and such us are renuir. I by k Pacific power like Russia. ounr Sher cmetlefT has contributed JIM (F'i anil iMldshlpman Soldatloko has sutarrlbeil 42000 toward the fund Ixing ralr 1 to build submarine boats. jfj Two sailors who rescued Grand Ittkel Cyril at the time of the einklng cf th battleship Petropaviovsk hae beera made Knights of St. George Imperial four percent, instead of weakening oh the news from Kin Chou, actually ad vanced a quarter point on tho bourse today. I |