THE BRITISH STEAMER OLDHAMIA.
The Foreign Office announces that the Secre- tary of State for Foreign Affairs received on Saturday the following telegram from his Majesty's Minister at Tokio, respecting the ss. Oldhamia :-
**Captain and three men of Oldhamia were captured on board Russian hospital ship and released yesterday, now at Consulate Nagasaki, 29 of crew put on board Russian transport which left Baltic Fleet May 25. Oldhamia left fleet May 21, and steamed east under escort of cruiser. Full particulars later."
SHANGHAI, JUNE 4.* The officers of the British steamer Oldhamia, which was seized by the Baltic Fleet on May 18, were put on board the Oleg (now at Manila). The crew were transferred to the Dneiper (ex-Peter- burg) and an entirely Russian prize crew took over the Oldhamia, which
ordered to Vladivostok escorted by the converted cruisers Kuban and Terek.
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