The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-04-12
RUSSIA WITHDRAWS.
VIII Not Press the Manchuriar
Treaty Upon China.

VIII Not Press the Manchurian
Treaty Upon China.
New York, April GA dispatch to the
Tribune from Paris says:
According to information reaching
Paris from source regarded az unones.
tI0nable Russia has withdrawn the nro.
posed Manchurian treaty with China
This step is attributed to the personal
instigation of Emperor Nicholas. and i
accepted as evidence of his determine.
tloh TO AVOID, at the present iuncture.
any conflict with Japan. Coupled with
TINS news comes the statement that Rus
sla does not deem it Pxpedient to with
draw any OF her troops now in Man
churla and intends to maintain the
statu quo until Chinese government
can be established at Pekin strong and
stable enough to inspire confidence of
the future
This courteous and unexpected with
drawal OF the proposed Manchurian con-
Ventlon, until now so aggressively urged
upon China, liz regarded as an exceed
lngly clever move on the part of Russia
because that treaty, which could Only be-
wrung from China by renewed drastic
pressure, would, after all, only secure an
empty International sanction of the
position which Russia already holds in
Manchurla, and the signing of the treaty
might make war with Japan inevitable.
Inc conviction prevails in diplomatic
circles here that the international peace
negotiations with China will be greatly
facilitated by Russa's withdrawal OF
the convention, which, by postponinp
the settlement of the Manchurian diff
culties, reduces it to an affair of local
interest. At the same time the present
Russian occupation of Manchuria is re-
garded here, rightly or wrongly. as a
parallel case of the British occupation
OF Egypt-as de factO possession, that
VIII approach permanency as each year
elapses.
Not a Word.
At the Russian embassy no infOrma-
tiOn on the subject was Obtainable to-
night. 1t was said there that no COM
municatiOns had come from the office at
st. Petersburg since the Russian note of
several days since, which declared that
governments intention regarding Man
churia, a story of which was handed to
Secretary Hay. The impression of the
officials at the embassy was that no
special significance attached to the
Squires dispatch. According to them
1t simply meant that the Russians had
discontinued further negotiations at
this time on the Manchurian question
alone, which for the time is held in atey-
ance.
This was in accord with the spirit of
the official publications on this matter,
which asserted that remaining faithful
to it's original and oft repeated political
argument regarding Manchuria, cit will
quietly await the further course of
events" Absolutely no concern was felt
at the embassy on the subject, the Of
ticials apparently being perfectly salts
fed that the communications referred
to relate entirely to the Manchuria ques-
tiOn
In other diplomatic circles the report
failed to receive credence, on the general
theory that the interests of the Russian
government in China were too great and
lar reaching to permit the severance of
diplomatic relations at this time when
unity on many of the
matters of negotiations were so promis-
ng.