Excerpt from A Diary of the Russo-Japanese War, Vol. 2: Being an Account of the War as Published Daily in the "Kobe Chronicle" Double rates for coal are being offered at Liverpool (on behalf of the Russian Government). Besides a bounty of fifteen shillings per ton to the masters of vessels if they successfully run the blockade at Vladivostok. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.