Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
By the Unfriendw Attitude
 of His NeighbOrS
RUSSIAN EXPLANATION
Of Failure to Get Out of hanchuria. It Is Stated That the Complaining Powers Do Not Understand the Situation-No Promise to Go.

New York, July 1.-The following cor responderce Of the Associated Prsss
 has beer received:
 St. Petersburg. June 2I.-This coun-
 try views with deep concern the fact
 that the foreign press is again largely
 inimical to Russia Even oii friends
 like the United States have lately dis
 played in their press a hostility such as
 Hitherto characterized England alOn-.''
 says q long-estabhshed and dignifiei
 review, which continues in the follow
 irsg: "Our policy in China scarcely jas
 tifies the reproahces which the Ameri-
 can press is heaping upon us We suf-
 fsTed incosnparabiy more from the
 Chinese troubles than any of the ether powers and nevertheless VIC have taken
 far less thought Of compensation and
 defense of our interests in the future
 than the others have. Under compul- sion of events which We did not fo-esee
 CT which We could not prevent. we had to occupy Manchu-ia. Once W had entered a Chinese province We could not leave it until order had been re- stored and the protection of our rail- road had been insured. When this had been accomplished we could not make up our minds to place the results of
 our efforts in jeopardy again and so ! kept deferTing the evacuation of the provinces that had been occupied. In order to gain from the Chinese govern ment some guarantee for the future In this logical cOncatenaticn Of circum- stances. one can scarcely find traces cf
 treacherous policy of conquest which would occasion disSz ztisfaction and tho protests of interested powers Sooner could we be convicted Of heedlesSless than of treacheTy. for the acquisition of a railroad in a foreign te-ritory in re- tiauce uEon all nsighborly Friendship
 was in itself risky undertaking.
 .'VaCillatiCns. contradictions and un-- i certaEnties i,I our conduct and in our ! declarations about the Maachurian question can easily be traced to causes ] which gre perfectly applicable to us. hut which do not exist So ta- as for 1 eign cabiT-ts are concerned In Man churia three separate authorities are aJ | work and each has its own views and 1 is seeking in it's own way Co defend the 1 interests Of the state. The ministry of
 foreign affairs. naturally chicfiy mind 1 1ul lO 4NClN 2Al 1AlA ' conflicts with foreign powers. is therr- l fore always inclined to make peaceahie ! declarations even in cases where their | fulfillment dCss not depend on diplom- stists alone. The ministry Of war Is. l for its part, unable to withdraw the i troops from a region that stilla nee iS | military protection and therefcse IS of- ten compelled to have recourse tO measures against which diplomacy has been pronounced in its declarations
 The ministry Of finaEoe keeps the great material interests connected with the East Chinese railroad mainly in view and is compelled therefore tC insist up l on great caution and the gradual evac- | uation oi Manchuria
 | Where three independent authorities
 are engaged one can scarcely expect
 uniformity and consistency in official | declarations and actions. and thus are
 explained many PeculiaritieS in the
 course of our Chinese affairs. The i contradictions between the cOnGcct Of
 the various authorities are taken by 1 foreigners as a proof cf the eisloyalty of our government. and they assign
 ambitious plans. which are direCted ini-
 mediately or remotely against the in 1 terests of other powers