The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-26
RUSSlA'S HAND
Is Seen In the Alaska Boundary
Line Dispute.
Is Accused of Playing an I'm
derhanded Game
TO KEEP SEPARATED
The Two Great English Speak
ing Countries.
Afraid Her Own Ambitions Will
Be ThWarted.
O KEEP SEPARATED

copyright, 1899, by Associated Press.)
London, Aug. 26.-Upon authority of
undoubted reliability, reporter of the
Associated Press has ascertained that
into the Alaska dispute there has crept
the craftiness of Russian diplomacy.
Russia, it can be stated, will do ev-
erything, with every possible energy,
to prevent the practical cohesion of the
two great English speaking nations. In
all her embassies instructions have
been received to thwart the Anglo
American understanding.
A prominent diplomat, who is init
mately acquainted with the details OF
the negotiations of the past few years,
said to the reporter of the Associated
Press:
IN any arrangement looking to a
working agreement between England
and the United States Russia sees the
defeat of her dearest projects. be-
live her intense activity in China is to
no small extent due to her fear that
Anglo-Saxon power. once centrahzed,
will sweep everything before it in the
far east. Dreading the rapid realiza-
ton of this nightmare, she is making
hay while the sun shines, in the mean
while intriguing to the utmost to tie
the hands of those who are working to
1naterialize Anglo-American sentiment
The latest evidence of this is in the
Alaska affair. Though, strictly speak
ing, it is a matter of internal policies
and would have been settled long ago
if left solely to Great Britain and the
United States. Russia has managed to
suggest motives never dreamed or by
America by distorting facts. 1t is i'm
possible for me to divulge exactly how
or to what extent Russia got her paws
into the dispute But the attitude of
her press, official to the core, is quite
sufficient to show her motives"
The report that Sir Wilfrid Laurier,
the premier of Canada and Mr.. L. H
E-h
cries, are to come here in regard to
Alaska is thought to be quite probable,
but nothing is known definitely of the
matter.
The caustic remarks of Sir Charles
Upper, formerly Canadian high COM
missioner. in an interview which rep
reSentatiVe of the Associated Press had
with him August Is, when he said the
United States was purpOsely delaying
the settlement Of the Alaska dispute
on account of the pecuniary benefit ac-
cruing to miners and coast cities
through the delay and had refused to
have the boundary delimited as was
being done in Venezuela, created con-
siderable dissatisfaction at the United
States embassy. 1t was claimed there
that Sir Charles Upper quite misrep-
resented the facts and that the dila-
tOriness was entirely due to the Canad-
ians. 1t was also said that his declara-
tons that the commission proposed by
the United States provided for no UNI
pire was deliberate evasion, as the
facts are the United states proposal
included an umpire to be chosen by
both sides from North America.
Though this was not committed to writ
ing it was thoroughly understood. The
hitch came through the absolute re-
fusal of the Canadians to accede. they
insisting upon a European umpire
The impression exists that Canadian
politics is chiefly responsible for thu
Alaskan Impasse. This is not only the
American idea but it obtains among
some of the British officials. though
most of the latter are inclined to be-
lieve the United States should make
vast concessions, in order to convince
the British of the sincerity Of their
friendship and as a return for war ser
vices. In other words. the British are
now rather expecting a quid pro quo,
an expression not uncommon in these
days
Congressman George Edmund Foss
of Chicago has completed an inspection
of the Armstrong works. the ThOmp-
son works, the Fairfield. Liverpool and
Belfast shipyards and the Vickers
Maxim works.
United States Naval Attache Colonel
Wells, accompanied Mr.. Foss They
We're afforded every courtesy by the
British manufacturers and shipbuiId-