The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19

homes and many Of its historical land
marks, but 90 long a. 1t retains its pres.
ent proportion Of drug stores, assimila'
ton with the other sections Of Manhat'
tan Island will not be complete.
Arc japan and Russia Drifting To.
ward War?
Although Russia has now ostensibly
Withdrawn from = second section OF
Manchuria, the section, namely, which
includes Newchwane, her maintenance
Of q strong garrison In close proximity
to that seaport has directed general at
tention to the illusory character Of the
evacuation. When describing the man.
nor In which The first and most northerly
section OF the province had been nomi.
nally evacuated, We pointed out that,
by fortifying and garrisoning q series
Of points strategically or commercially
valuable on the Manchurian branch Of
the Siberian Railway, Russia had kept
in her hands the power OF resuming
at any moment the political and fiscal
control Of the territory. As large ex-
porters Of the commodities distributed
from Newchwsng. We ourselves are deeply
interested In the faithful performance
OF the Cars promise to leave China's
authority intact; but our interest is
trivial compared with the vital impor.
tanoe Of Manchuria to tho Mikado's sub
jects, considered a. Q market for their
manufactures and as an outlet for their
surplus population.
According to the latest news from
Toxic, the hour may not b distant when
the Japanese viii demand that Russia
shall evacuate Manchuria In fact as well
as In name. Tho correspondent Of the
London Times in the japanese capital
has telegraphed that on Wednesday,
April 8, q meeting Of the two chief po-
litical parties passed a resolution pray.
ing the British and Japanese Govern
ments to urge China to insist upon Q
genuine restoration Of its administrative
functions in Manchuria. Among the
speakers at this meeting was q professor
OF the Toxic University, who declared
that nothing could make the evacuation
q reality except war, for which his coun-
trymen must prepare themselves, as II
was absolutely necessary to keep Man.
churia open to the inflow of emierants
from Japan. There is no doubt that the
assertion il founded on fact to-day, al
though eight years ago there was still
on alternative which has since been
eliminated by unexpected events.
When Russia, Germany and France
exacted, and Great Britain permitted, the
OF the Lao Tung Peninsula,
which Japan had conquered, she could
still look forward to extensive expansion,
a. q purely island-empire.
She had, indeed, already acquired the
Ioochoo Isles and Formosa, or, in other
words, the first links In chain OF Islands
southwark over some twenty
Eve degrees Of latitude 10 Boneo. The
japanese, not unnaturally, deemed them
selves peculiarly qualified by the Malayan
strain In their blood to perform the work
Of civilization for their kinsmen in the
Sialayan archipelagos. Tho chance of
In that direction, however,
was irreparably Lost through tho &C
QUESTION OF the Philippines by the United
States. Thenceforth 1t was recognized
At Toxic that the sole hope Of checking
the pressure Of population on the limited
area OF arabic soil lay in q reversion to
the former policy OF securing footholds
on the Asiatic mainland. Nor would
Corea suffice, even IL the inpour Of Jap
anese immigrants into that kingdom were
not exposed to continual obstruction
on the part Of Russia. Cores IL \ poor
and will be unable for many
years. to come to take more than q small
fraction Of the constantly increasing