Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1904 — Czar Visits Dockyards. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Czar Visits Dockyards.

The Czar visited the new admiralty dockyard at St. Petersburg. He was looking pale, but was cheerful, and smilingly greeted the 12,000 dock workers who turned out to welcome him. He inspected the arrangements of the Kamtcli&tka for accommodating 1,000 men. She will be ready in a few months. The Emperor then boarded the first-class protected cruiser Oleg, which wns afloat amid the ice. The Oleg’s engines are ready, but her turrets and conning tower are not yet armored and l»ir guns are not in position.

RUSSIAN VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON ESCAPES THROUGH THE ICE.