St. Paul daily globe., 1895-05-05
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Interesting Summary Of Rel
atiye Status Of the Great
Nations.
RUSSIA BULLYING JAPAN
Because, Forsooth, She May
Disturb the Balance
Of Power"
RUSSIA BULLYING JAPAN
FRANCE AND GERMANY
Also Support This Attitude
Moves on Diplomatic
Checker Board.

LONDON, May 4.-There seems to
be little doubt that China and Japan
have both ratified the treaty of
Shimoroseki, which comphcates the
position of the European protesting
powers. At the request of the AS
soCiated Press, Poultney Bigelow,
who has exceptional means for OBJ
tanning political information, es-
pecially in Germany, has written the
following: Russia is the power that
today calls upon Japan to drop the
fruits of her victory and take orders
from st. Petersburg.
RUSSIA ORDERS JAPAN
TO give up her foclthold upon Chi
nese soil because, forsooth, she may
disturb that mystical humble called
balance of power. This order is
backed up by the voices of France
and Germany. The voice of France
is weak; not because she does not
love Russia, but because she also
loves Japan, and because she hates
Germany more than she loves any
| country. Germany is sacrificing the
strictly political. The Emperor of
Germany desires to show good will
for his Eastern neighbor, particular
ly at the outset of the present cars
reign. For the past ten years these
| relations have been very strained,
even TO the point of imminent war in
| 1891. Germany is row experimenting
! with a piatOnic alliance between the
cZ3r and the emperor. IT cannCt last
| long, but ii is profoundly conceived.
| It tends 20 weaken French hatred of
| Germany and to wean ttat republic
| from slavish obedience to Russian
diCt9tion, and to isolate her still
! further. A large party in Germany
hates England cordially and is ready
to make any sacrifice for the graft
fiCa.iOn of this feeling. This hatred
springs largely from commercial
rivalry but the more feeling That
| German expansion in Africa has been
kampered by John Bull. Germany
hopes in a vague way that England
! may purchase her good Will ty large
cezsaons in the dark continent, and
at present, therefore, the emreror's
government is taking great pains to
array itself with the enemies of Eng
land. If the Russians give but half
an opportunity the army that has
just thrashed China VIII
TURN AGAINST RUSSIA
with infinitely finer gusto. Russia
has kept all she has stolen and wants
more. she wants Corea, and, above
all, she wants the very Port Arthur
which Japan proposes to keep. ia
pan may be bluffed into surrender
ing some of her claims; but her true
interests lie in fighting Russia at
once while her army and navy are IN
good condition, and she can do 50
with the greatest ease. From q
source which mas never deceived me
[ am able to say that Russia has in
Eastern Siberia, and nOminally fit to
take the field, twenty baltta,i9ns, two
squadrons Of cavalry, ten squadrons
of COss8cks; six field batteries. equal
to forty-three guns; two half
mountain batteries, equal to eight
guns; two Cossack 10, Sc ar.ille bat
teries, equal to twelve guns; three
companies Of fortress artillery and
three companies of sappers. The re-
crufts for these troops come every
year from Odessa, by way of Suez,
and it would take a year before the
Russians could put an army of 1OO.-
600 men in the field near VIadi-
vostock. Russia alone
CANNOT SUBDUE JAPAN.
in spite of her army of 100000 men
and her many COssacks, and Ger
many can help her only with fair
words, for the reichstag won't vote
money for war in the East, seeing
tnat the only profit possible will fan
to Russia. France is wise enough to
feel much the same way. The
hatred felt by France and Germany
against England is not yet quite
SO strong as that felt by each for the
ether. John Bull and Uncle Sam
can afford TO stand by and say:
" Let the plucky japanese take all
he can hold. He will make infinite
ly better use of il tnan either China
Eas done or Russia can do"