Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-22
RUSSIA MAKES LIGHT OF IT
esys the Tisn Tsis Incident 10 Common.
place and Can Be Settled.
BRITISH PRESS MAGNIFY IMPORTANCE
OHciaIs Express No Doubt Affair viii
lie settled by Diplomacy to
the Satisfaction of
Roth Parties.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 2l.-A semi
official statement has just been issued to
Z the effect that a commonplace incident at
Tiep Tsin has been terribly exaggerated by
the British press. until 1t has almost as
sumed the gravity of a casus belli. Accord.
/ ing to the statement the trouble was due TO
British troops trying to forcibly possess
disputed territory. The statement recites
| that the matter Is manifestly question
for diplomatic treatment, and the Russian
government has no doubt but that 1t will be
amcably settled to the satisfaction OF tho
governments at London and st. Petersburg.
! NEW YORK, March 2l--A special to the
| Herald from Tien Tsin says IL now trans
pres that at the very moment OF Count
Won Waldersees arrival here General
Wogack, acting upon instructions from the
Russian imperial government. made a
| formal demand upon General Campbell for
the withdrawal OF the British troops from
the disputed territory He further demands
an apology from the British commander for
| the alleged trespass Of his force.
Up to the present time General Wogack
has received no reply, excepting a simple
acknowledgment of the receipt OF his de-
mand which, it is said, is couched in Ian
guage which resembles an ultimatum.
Waidersce Prevents BIoodshed.
BERLIN, March 2l.--The correspondent
of the Associated Press has learned that
Count Won Waldersee, during his stay in
| Tien Tsn yesterday, succeeded in his mis-
| sion, which consisted merely In preventing
! bloodshed among the allied troops. Beyond
| this, 1t is stated In official circles, Germany
will remain perfectly neutral.
According to Russian accounts which have
reached Berlin the question at issue in
Tien Tsin Is not controversial, and the Rus
! sian claims TO the territory where the
trouble occurred are indisputable Besides
! the Russian flag was exhibited on the
boundary marks, which the British SOL
| diers did not respect
PARIS, March 21.-2:3O p. m.-The French
Foreign Office has as yet received no dis
patches regarding the Anglo-French or
Anglo Russian trouble at Tien Tsin. on
cials are hopeful Of a conciliatory settle
ment for what they regard as not being 8
serious difficulty.
Cablegrams received here from Pekin are
very cheerful regarding the rapid progress
of negotiations there during the past week.
| The American proposal to arrange for de-
handing Joint damages from China Is being
favorably discussed by the powers. There
appears to be prospect for the adoption
of this proposition, although with some
notifications from Its original form.
| Feeling in Paris favors an agreement
among the powers respecting the amount
each state shall demand. and then the pre-
sentation of these amounts to the Chinese
government as one sum- 1t Is thought the
claims of individuals and societies, how
ever, should be adjudged by commissions
sitting in the respective legations and pre-
sented separately.
| Take More HODeful View.
LONDON, March 2l.-The more staid
| afternoon papers, with recollections of the
| earlier Chinese exaggerations, decline to
| credit the sensational stories from Tien
Tsin and Shanghai They believe the Tien
| Tsin difficulty will be readily solved by
| diplomacy. In regard to the. suggestion in
the Shanghai dispatch that the squadron
has designs on Corea the papers think 1t
highly improbable that Russia has any
present intention Of risking a naval war
with Japan, which they consider would un-
| questionably follow any forward movement
of Russia in the Hermit Kingdom.
Tho Japanese minister, Hayashi Tadasu.
| in an interview today. does not attach any
Importance to the dispatches from Shanghai
and Kobe. He says that II Russia had any
| Important designs on Corea 1t would
! require an army and not feet. The min
| lister had no information regarding the re-
| ported mobilization Of the Japanese feet.
| Robert r. Watts OF Salem. Mo, writes:
II have been troubled with kidney disease