The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-08
Port Arthur ard Ta-Lien-Wan
Leased TO Russia.
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
SIGNS OF CONFLICT BETWEEN
RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
Looking Out For the Possibility of
Britain Closing the Suez Canal
England Aroused Over This Last
Phase of the Oriental Question
Russian Movements.

Pekin, March Russia demands the
settlement of the lease of Port Arthur
| and Ta-Lien- Wan by March "a. The
Tsung- Yamen has given full powers
to Yang Yu, the Chinese minister at St
/ Petersburg, and negotiations have been
transferred there. The matter is prac-
tically settled.
What will Japan do? England will
do nothing.
China has given Japan a written un-
dertaking to pay the indemnity in May.
LEASE GIVEN.
Berlin, March THE Tageblatt to-
day publishes a dispatch from Pekin
saying China has agreed to lease Port
Arthur and Ta-Lien-W Wan to Russia
for SO years.
All kinds of spectators are fiocking
there for the purpose of securing con-
cessionS for electric lighting, street
railroads and regular railroads, etc. The
Chinese merchants are showing great
eagerness to participate in the enter
prises.
TORPEDO BOATS ORDERED.
Odessa, March The Russian gov
eminent has ordered 80 new torpedo
boats to augment the Russia Pacific
squadron at Vladivostock and Port Ar
thur. Russia also proposes to keep
eight cruisers of the volunteer fleet con-
tinually in far eastern waters, instead
of the Black sea, so as to avoid the pos
sibility of being hampered by Great
Britain closing the SueZ canal.
NO OFFICIAL KNOWLEDGE.
London, March 7.-Replying in the
house of commons today TO Sir Ellis
AShmead Bartlett. Conservative, Mr..
Cr1rzOn tho narlfarnaUrarV secretary
for the foreign Office, said the govern
ment could not confirm the message to
the London Times from Pekin. pub
lished today, saying that Russia had
demanded that China surrender to her
all sovereign rights over Port arthur
and Ta-Lier-Wa for the same period
and on the same conditions as in the
case of Germany at Kiao Chou bay. be-
sides demanding important concessions,
giving five days within which to receive
a reply and threatening TO move troops
into Manchuria in the event of non
compliance with her demands. Mr.
Iverson also said the government had
no confirmation of the report that Rus
STA had occupied Deer island, Corea,
nor could the government confirm the
reports setting forth that Russia. was
Strengthening the forts at Port Arthur.
A dispatch from Nagasaki, Japan, to
the Daily Mail SAYS the Corear cab
met. with the exception of the foreign
minister. Min Chong Monk. have re-
signed because Min granted the Deer
island concession to Russia without the
consent of the cabinet.
WHAT WILL ENGLAND DO?
All the morning papers comment on
the menacing aspect of affairs in the
far east The Daily Chronicle, in
strong editorial, says:
LAS a rebuff to Lord Salisbury, moth
ing could be meaner and more painful
Russia has simply begun the partition
of China If anybody asks what China
will do, the answer is simple. There
is no such thing as China. The real
questions are: What win England do?
and What will Japan do?
IF ever Great Britain needed a
strong man, il is now, and the coun-
try will learn with dissatisfaction that
again at a moment of acute crisis the
premier's health compels him to go
abroad. Thus both the queen and the
prime minister are to be absent, when
their presence is peculiarly needed"
PARTITION OF CHINA.
The ministerial Standards editorial is
milder, but TO the same effect as the
Daily Chronicles. 1t says:
Years may pass in the execution of
these designs, but from the moment
the covenant is signed. the partition of /
China is begun. The disguise is too 1
thin to be meant to deceive.
TT is no wonder that the eyes Of the
nation are fixed in eager expectation
upon Japan. The question remains
England will resist Russia or
proceed to restore the equilibrium by
measures OF her own"