On arrival at Hong-Kong, she found orders to deliver at Sasebo, and, having made delivery accordingly, was chartered by a Japanese company at another Japanese port, to carry coal to a British firm at Singapore.

On her way thither, she was captured by a Russian squadron and taken in to Vladivostok, where on June 24 she was condemned by the prize Court for carriage of contraband.

The Court held, ignoring the rule that a vessel ceases to be _in dilecto_ when she has "deposited" her contraband (since affirmed by Art.

38 of the Declaration of London of 1909), that she was liable in respect of her voyage to Sasebo; as also in respect of the voyage on which she was captured, on the ground that her real destination was at that time the Japanese fleet, or some Japanese port.

This decision was reversed, as to both ship and cargo, by the Court of Appeal at St.Petersburg, on October 22 of the same year.
The doctrine of "continuous voyages" was by the Declaration of London, Art.