. Review of reviews and world's work. but the majority regret that the ad-miral did not inform theneighboring maritime pow-ers of what had majority of the commis-sion consider that the Rus-sian admirals precautionshad not been excessive un-der the circumstances, al-though they hold that therewas no torpedo boat in thevicinity. Upon the piibli-cation of the verdict, inaccordance with Russias ad-vance agreement to indemni-fy the Hull fishermen. CountBenckendorf, the Russianambassador to Great Britain,had at once paid over to theBritish foreign office £65,-000 (about $325,000). Despi
. Review of reviews and world's work. but the majority regret that the ad-miral did not inform theneighboring maritime pow-ers of what had majority of the commis-sion consider that the Rus-sian admirals precautionshad not been excessive un-der the circumstances, al-though they hold that therewas no torpedo boat in thevicinity. Upon the piibli-cation of the verdict, inaccordance with Russias ad-vance agreement to indemni-fy the Hull fishermen. CountBenckendorf, the Russianambassador to Great Britain,had at once paid over to theBritish foreign office £65,-000 (about $325,000). Despite the per- Naual Losses . ■ . ^ on Both sistently repeat-Sides. g^ report thatAdmiral Rozhestvenski hadbeen recalled, it had beenannounced on March 17 thatthe Russian Baltic fleet wouldcontinue its course to Chi-nese waters. The Czar haddecided to order AdmiralRozhestvenski to meet Ad-miral Togo and make onemore effort to destroy Ja-pans naval power, thus crip-pling the communicationsbetween her armies on theand their home THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL FAMILY. The little girl to the extreme left in the picture is the Grand Duchess Tatiana(born 1897) ; below her is the Grand Duchess Marie (1899) : next to her is the GrandDuchess Anastasia (1901) ; and standing up beside her father is the Grand DuchessOlga (1895). In his mothers arms is the Grand Duke Alexis, heir to the throne(born August 12, 1904). Asiatic mainlandMost of the careful stu-dents of the war believe that Russia cannot pos-sibly defeat Japan on land, and that her onlychance of victory lies in destroying the Japanesesea power. Without securing command of thesea, even such Russian leaders as Admiral Skryd-lov are claiming that it will be impossible forRussia to crush Japan. Up to the middle ofMarch, the naval losses of the two powers, ascompiled from official statistics, had been : Rus-sia, 7 battleships, 13 cruisers, and a number ofother vessels ; Japan, 1 battleship (the JJatsuse),3 second-class cruisers (the Yosh
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