Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-05-11
information, especially in Germany,

Pussia is lhe power Gtat today calls upon Japan to drop the fruits of her vic tory and take orders from St. Peters.
 burg. Russia orders Japan to give up her foot hold on China because. r. sooth, 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 Ger
 many more than she loves any country.
 Germany is sacrificing the friendship of Japan for reasons strictly political. The emperor or Germany desires to show good Will for It's eastern nelghb bors prac-
 tIcslly at the outset oc the present czar's
 reign For the past ten years the rela-
 tons nave been very much strained,
 even to the point of imminent war in 1S9l. Germany is now experimenting
 with Latonic alliance betreen the czar and the emperor. It cannot last
 long, but 1t IS profoundly conceived. It tends to weaken French hatred of Ger
 maay and to wean that repu6 6lic from slavish obedisnce to Russian dictation,
 and isolate her still further.
 "A large party ID Germany hates Eng ioAN " OioihiAy lc ISdQI tO udho duy sacrifice for the eradication of this
 feeling. This hatred springs largely from commercial relation, but still more from the feeling that German expansion In Africa has been hampered by John
 Bull. Germany hopes in a vague way | that England may purchase her good Will by large concessions in the dark | continent and at present, therefore, the ant &alr pains to array itself with the enemies of England and the South Africa and Alsace-Lorraire difficulties are to be | settled on the banks of Fei Ho and Yan>tse- -kiang. But Japan has her within sight of Japan called Saghallen and there Is DO Japanese who would not gladly enlist in war to recover this
 island, for it wes stolen by Russians in | 1887.
 "I was at Tokio the year after this
 extraordinary land grab and can well
 recall the fury of the then impotent
 Japanese. If the Russians give but
 half an opportunity the army that has just thrashed China will turn against | Russia with infinitely finer gusto. That
 was land grab that we could only spre-
 ciate If a foreign power should occupy Long Island or the eastern shore of
 Maryland. Russia has kept all she has stolen and wants more. She wants | Corea and above all she wants Port Arthur, which Japan proposes to keep.
 Japan may be bluffed into surrenderinp some of her claims but her true interests
 Ire in fighting Russia at once while her army and navy are in good condition | and cha r-ifh E1 ease.
 "From Q source which has never de- celved me. I am able to say Russia has | iu eastern Siberia and nominally fit to | take the field, twenty battalions of in- | fantry5 two equadrons of cavalry. ten squairons of CoSsacks, six field batter | ies equal to AS guns, two half mountain batteries equal 10 eght guns, two Cos | sack Hussar artillery batteries equal to eight guns, three companies of fortress
 artillery and three companies of sappers The recruits for these troops come every
 year from Odesa by way of Suez, and it | would take year before the Russians | could put 100, 600 men in the field near VledivostOck. Russia alone cannot sub-
 due Japan, in spite of her army of 80O,-
 900 men and her many Cossacks, and
 Germany can help her only with fair ! words, for the reischstag went vote any
 money for war in the east, seeing that
 the only profit possible will fall to Rus
 sla. France IS wise enough to feel much the same way. Tne hatred felt by
 France and Germany against England
 IS not yet quite go stroog as that felt by each for the other. Jchn Bull and Uncle Sam can afford to stand by and
 say: Let the plucky Japanese take all
 he can hold. He will make infinitely better use of it than either China has done or Russia can do.'"
 LoNEoN, May 7-The widow of Sena-
 tor Hearst, of California, will be pre- sented in the diplomatic circle at the queens drawingroom tomorrow.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 7.-Ex- Senator John Martin, president of the
 Hudson Reservoir and Land company and Central Arizona railway is in the city in the interest of these companies. The senator says if democrats do not adopt plank favoring the free coirage ofsllver, they will not carry a single state in the Union.
 HAVANA, Mty 7-Despatches received here say great indignation has been caused Tn the province of Santiago de Caba. Antonio Maceo, the ineurRent leader, removed the rails of the railroad rear Cristo. causing the derailment of the train, to the injury of number of people.
 ROME, May 7.-Kiug Hubert and Queen Margarite were on way today in a special train from Florence to this city, attended by their suites, when near Incisa lake their carriage YVES dera'led and every body on the train received more or less serious concussicns. Ob- struction had either fallen scrose the track or had been placed thare. The king and queen escaped with bad shak- ing up.
 HoNG KONG, China, May Five thousand soldiers have started from Canton for Formosa to suppress the ex- pented opposition of the Black Flags to 1 the occupation of the island by the Jap Rnese according to the terms of the | treaty. The troops are unreliable and | are liable to join ths Black Flags
 COLON, May The steamship nes have been notified on behalf of the | Nieara2usn government. thGt the port of Corinto is now open. The authori- ties of Rluefields are has;ening exten- siye Notifications. This is believed to be due to the fact that the deposed chief Clarence, now in. the British peninsular at Jamaica has asked Great Britain to restore hIm to authority.
 ST. JOHNS, N. F, May 7-LIast night 3 story was circulated that the Bank of