Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-30
Great Britain Preparing to Mass
Troops at Esquimault.
CANADIAN PACIFIC NOTIFIED
Preparations Made to Handle
10000 Troops at Short Notice.
SOME JUNIORS DENIED

CHICAGO, December 3O.-A special from
Minneapolis says: Advices from Ottawa in
dictate that the British government is pre-
parlng TO actively resist Russian occupa-
tlon OF Fort Arthur and Russian influence
IN Corea: also that the cooperation of the
japanese fleet with that of Great Britain is
a well-settIed fact
Information has been received from an
inside source that the Ottawa government
thirty days ago, notified the Canadian Pa
clfc officials TO be in readiness for the i'm
mediate transportation from Montreal to
Vancouver and Esquinlault of $500 men,
the contingent consisting of engineers gun
ners and deck officers
Ready To Transport Troops
According to Information at hand, the
read has prepared for handling 10000 men,
five trains being held in readiness for this
service.
The officers included in the first contin-
gent are intended to reinforce the japanese
fleet. which is said TO be very short in eli
s.neeTinS talent and deficient in gunnery
Ihe dispatch adds that a secret agreement
mas been concluded between Great Britain
and Japan, by the terms of which the Rus
sian preteGsiors in Corea are to be over
come and Russian ACKNOWLEDGMENT in Asia
pernanertly checked.
Capt. RoIfc's Views
Capt. Ronald Rolfe. r. y 1retireGD. on in
specuon service. just returned from the
west. ard on his way to England via New
York. says that, in his opinion. the force
above referred to is intended to increase
the efficiency of the forts at EsauimauIt
ard relieve the crew of the North Pacific
squadron
He declines TO discuss the probab biIitv of
an Ang!c-Russian imbroglio but asserts
that in case Of actual h1stiIities the Brit
1sh As.atic squadron Is OF sufficient strength
TO enforce any demands Great Britain NAV
have to max. He denies that there is; any
probability of any Anglo-Japanese alliance,
rernarking that England's combining wirn
Il lourth- rate power like Japan. would be
ist. ''i''' "'e' io' eA-
MOI to Reinforce Japanese
captain RO!fe asserts with positivcness
that the contingent 10 oe sent west is not
1or Janancss reinforcement, but rather TO
De Us q IS a reserve for the fleets in opera
ton shoG!d "a naval war result from the
pohiIc"i comI Ilic,itioas in the orient
hHqniSit{"n for Merchant Vessels
LONDON. December 39-The officials Of
the Canadian Pacific railroad here saw they
have 10 knowledge of the British admiral
ty having requistioned three of the en-
press steamships belonging to that COM
p,'i4'' - reported IN a special dispatch from
shanghai. and they believe the statemenf
TO De without foundation.
Seizure of Hni-Nan Di.credited
PARIS, December 3o.-The officials of the
French ministry of marine regard the re-
FORT OF the occupation of the Island of
Hai-Nan off the south coast of China nv
Lhe french fleet in those waters, as being
An invention
during the day there was issued n semi
Sihclai contradiction of the report that the
french nag had been hoisted over the Is
land of Hai-Nan
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