620              DIARY  OF THE WAR
Oct.   IT-—Baltic Fleet anchors off the Danish coast. Oct.   18.—Baltic Fleet passes through the Great Belt. Oct.   20.—Baltic Fleet proceeds to the North Sea. Oct.   21-22.—Baltiq Fleet at midnight fires pn Huix
Fleet. Oct,   22.—The Supreme Prize Court at St. Petersburg releases the
Allanton. Oct.   24.—Urgent representations addressed by the British to the
Russian Government. Preliminary orders for mutual support and co-operation
sent to  the  Mediterranean,  Channel, and   Home
Fleets. Oct.   25.—The Tsar sends a message to the King expressing his
extreme regret, Oct.   26.—Baltic Fleet arrives at Vigo.
Japanese seize trenches on the Ehrlungshan glacis. Oct.   28.—Mr. Balfour, at the Southampton meeting of the National
Union of Conservative Associations, announces that
an  International  Commission  of Inquiry is to be
constituted in accordance with the provisions of The
Hague Convention.
Four Russian officers left behind at Vigo, Oct.   29.—Baltic Fleet begins to arrjve at Tangier, Oct.   31.—Japanese gain possession of the glacjs crests of Ehrlungshan, Sungshushan, and the North Fprt of East
Keekwanshan. Nov.    2.—Sir Charles Hardinge submits the British proposals for
the constitution of the Commission of Inquiry, Nov.    4.—Foreign Office statement on contraband. Nov.    5.—Russia accepts the draft proposals pf Great Britain, but
difficulties are subsequently raised. Baltic Fleet leaves Tangier. General Linievitch appointed to command First and
General   Kaulbars  appointed   to  command  Third
Manchurian Army-No v.  10.—Admiral Alexeieff arrives in St, Petersburg. Admiral Folkersahm's division at Suda Bay. Nov.   12.—Admiral Rozhdestvensky at Dakar till Nov. 16. Nov.  14.—Japanese Six per Cent, Sterling Loan (second series)
for £12,000,000 issued in London and New York
at 90£.
Nov.  15.—Board of Trade Inquiry opened at Hull. Nov.  16.—Russian destroyer Raztpropni blown up by her commander at Chifu. Nov. 17.—Supplementary division of the Baltic Fleet leaves Libau,