The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-27
RUSSIA NASSING TROOPS
WILL ATTACK CHINA THROUGH
MANCHURIA.
Trans Siberian Railroad Being Used for
Military unprecedented Seymour
Goes Back to the Fleet.

NEW YORK, July 1S.-A World Gu
BILE from London, July 10, says: Rus
STA is preparing to make a descent on
China from Manchuria. She is massing
there a great army of Cossacks and is
using the Siberian Railway exclusively
for military operations. An army of
200, 900 Russians may invade China from
the north by the LIST of August. This
step makes a clash of nations in China
possible England has already with
drawn Admiral Seymour from the COM
mand of the allied foreign forces at
Tientsin because his services are need
ed in command of Englands fleet. The
Russian Admiral Alexieff, who is, next
to Seymour, the highest in rank of all
foreign officers, succeeds Seymour as
chief of the land forces. Germany is at
present showing herself in sympathy
with Russia and seems willing to aid
her designs. France has a weak force
in China, but she will, of course, not
oppose Russia There is apparently no
unity of action by the allies in China.
Present international sympathies
seem to make this alignment: United
States, England and Japan against
Russia, Germany and France. Of
course. there is no open expression of
this feeling, but all British statesmen
and newspapers discredit the report
that China has invaded Russian terri
y
against Russia. There is no constituted
authority in China which is empow
cred to declare war. The Chinese attack
on a Russian Manchuria settlement,
Amur, yesterday is regarded as merely
an extension of the Boxer movement.
But the possibility of a detached hos
tility between Russia and China is con-
sidered to import the gravest posi-
BILE complications, bringing Russia to
the front among the aggrieved powers
with special ultimate claims for COM
pensation. Russia is even suspected of
provoking the hostilities in order to en-
title her to the most injured nation
treatment when the settlement comes.
This suspicion is SymptOmatic of the
profound mutual distrust anmating the
powers, to which is attributable the
withdrawal of Admiral Seymour from
the shore hostiities in order to be pre-
pared for an international crisis de-
handing the British fleet in the fullest
state of efficiency. The British naval
guns will be re-embarked at the earliest
possible moment. Rumors of Russia g
warlike preparations seriously affected
the stock exchange. COnsOls fell one
half and the war loan dropped to two
per cent discount.
Russias notification to the powers
declares that she is preparing for mill
/ itary operations on a large scale against
Picking through Manchuria. Burn Muir
doch, agent of Prichard Morgan, NJ. p,
in Corea, who has just reached London
after sixty days journey by way of
Vladivostok, over the Trans-Siberian
Railway to Moscow, says Russia. even
before he left was actively modifying
troops in Central Russia and East and
West Siberia. The Trans-Siberian
Railway is conveying close to 100000
men to Manchuria or it's borders. In
linlnngtic circles tnnipht
the fate of the legations is no longer
considered of first Importance. The per-
ilous international situation is looming
up on the horizon.