The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-29
ADVANCE OF RUSSIA
No Doubt China Has Made Ex-
traordinary Concessions.
GREAT ACTIVITY iNTHE FAR EAST
Russia TO Explore Observation-Disclosures
Fleet TO Be Reinforced The
Cars ships at Port Arthur.

London. Oct. SIN spite OF the state
ment made by the Graphic today hat "a
high official in authority says the alarm
ing dispatch OF the Times from Hongkong
regarding important concessions made oy
China 10 Russia" bears no resemblance
10 actual facts, the news seems % be con-
firrned today from two sources. q. z.
Morrison, who recently Travelled through
China, writes that as far back as Au-
gust last the Chinese newspapers out
lined a scheme by which China proposed
70 reward Germany. France and Russia
for their intervention against Japan. Ger
many, he says, was 70 have concessions
OF land at the treaty ports OF Hankow ana
Tsantsin: France was 10 be granted GER
tain privileges in Southeast China, and
Russia was 10 be allowed 10 extend her
railway system 10 Port Arthur.
The second ground for believing the
report may be correct IS found In dis
patch to the Daily Telegraph from Wen
ma, published today, giving an outline OF
an interview with a well-known Russian
statesman, who practically admits the
truth OF the news telegraphed from
Hongkong TO the Times. Referring 10 the
Americans the Russian statesman is quot
ed as saying: THE Americans are our
friends in Europe. They are specially
Zea.ous in espousing our cause when we
need no outside help. But in the far East
Russian embassy here, however, the
statement is made that there is absolute
ly no foundation for the announcement
made by the times. II is asserted by the
Russian officials that no such treaty has
been concluded between the governments
OF Russia and China. ana il is further
asserted by them that the Russian gov
eminent is not animated by any anti
English feeling in its policy in connection
with the far East.
The Times viii publish a dispatch from
Hongkong which says: Speaking at
public banquet at Vladivostock on Sep
TENDER z, which was given in his honor
on the occasion Of his departure for Eu-
rope, Gen. Doukhosky, governor of East
ern Siberia, referred 10 the new Man
churian concession and strongly urged
that the community be not alarmed by
IL, for Nladiyostock must remain the
headquarters, though a portion of the
feet would be at Port Arthur. The gov
ernor and port admiral of VladivosIock
spoke in the same strain.
Three missions, with an escort of 100
Cossacks each. have started respectively
from Nertchinsk, Blagovestichensk and
Nikolsk TO explore and survey certain
portions of the interior of Manchuria.
"a Shanghai telegram states that five
Russian warships are inside and nine
are outside of the harbor of Port Arthur.
All OAESSd ulSpdtI1i ~ TIE AiitCS says
that another cruiser OF the Russian VOL
unteer fleet has started with a contingent
of sailors. ammunition and war material
to join the Russian fleet cruising near
Japan.
The Times says in an editorial this
morning: The official denial of our
Honglzong dispatch is given in a form
leaving no doubt that at least as regards
the double approach 10 Port Arthur our
correspondent at Tientsin was misled
Yet II he erred it was in good company,
the governor of Siberia having been under
the same impression"
The Standard, Conservative, says in an
editorial this morning: Russia has got
her answer. and her intended treaty with
China is torn up before it came into exist
ence."
ST. Petersburg. Oct 2S-Accordng to a
dispatch from Seoul TO the Novoe Vremya
the king of Korea has chosen another
queen and has assumed the title of en-
peror. 1t Is also stated that the heir APP
parent is being sent as an envoy to Amer
lea and England. with the object OF get
ting him out of the country and preparing
the way to the throne for prince who
stands in the highest favor