The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-07-30
RUSSIA FEARS NOT
CAN TAKE CARE OF FIVE powpn,
WITHOUT TROUBLE.
Director of the Foreign Of,ca NJ
Some--Abuses the British
Says Their Dupiicity Caused =,
the Tic uole''will Hold wh.,
She Has.

st. Petersburg, July 27.-Directo,
Hartwig, of the Asiatic departmen. VI
the Russian foreign office, talked la.s '
earnestly and frankly to represen.s'
tive OF the Associated Press ,eoa,d;1
Manchuria. He began by maxine ~
statement that the Russo Chinese sit a'
alton was likely to remain uncban""s
until the return to the Russian can;,o,
of War Minister Kuropatkin p"''
Mr. Hartwig declared that he co,,,
not understand Prince Chine's sta..
ment to United States Minister Co...
but he presumed the port onest;o,
would be arranged. Russia, he cola
excluded Hardin from port possibiG'
ties because of it's Importance, but 10
could see no objection to other mort.
being opened.
Passing to the statement of Amer.
can opinion regarding Manchuria tha
director made remarkably outsnoken
attack upon England. He said:
81 do not comprehend how Russia
whose foreign policy is the most
straigh forward, can be accused Of dr.
plicity, when England's double dealinv
is a question that should be appa,ent
to everybody. Here are two telegrams
received from England TO-DAY, One
relates to Lord Cranbourne's statement
in the house of commons July 20. saw.
ing that England desires an Anglo. Rms
sian arrangement covering the entire
situation, and that England recognized
Russia's peculiar situation and special
interests in Manchuria.
No Fear of War.
'The other repeats the London
Standards dispatch from Tientsin Of
July "a, regarding Russian reinforce.
ments at Port Arthur. This is for
American consumption. 1t is false
but shall permit its publication here
in order to prove that we do not fear
war, even with five powers.
"Engiand never addressed to us in.
quiries, complaints or protests regard.
ing Manchuria. She recognizes our
special interests, but continually in.
cites America and Japan against Rus.
sia. The dispatches from the far East
are for American consumption. Why
does not America see through the trick?
Why swallow the bait so awkwardy
disguised? Does America desire war?
"If so, why does not anybody stop to
consider how much the American Man.
churian trade amounted to before 1893.
Who ever heard Newchwang mention
ed before we brought order there?
Who is building Dalny as free port?
Russia has transferred miles of Chinese
frontier. Shall we place ourselves on
the same footing as others? When We
saved Admiral Seymour from destruc.
tion why did not somebody protest
against Kiachow? What is the outcry
for? Does anybody suppose we aeg.
ing to be compelled % rclInqush the
railway to Honqhoneses or other ma
rauders?
Control of Situation.
II repeat, we do not fear war, even
with five powers. Our defeat in the
Crimea is glorious chapter in our hls.
tory, and | do not believe that any five
powers desire TO gather new laurels like
those of the Crimea. What can Japan
do? Suppose Japan defeated the Rus
sian army. We would crush Japan to
and. japan exists upon Russian fish
"It is your duty to expose England's
duplicity. 1t is not a recent pheDome'
non now it is chronic affair. Some
English dispatches surpass opera boufle'
Here is dispatch just received stating
that Japan is preparing for war ana
that the entire Japanese sqaudron is
now at Vladivostock, where foreign
warships are not allowed at all. !"
Director Hartwig specifically denied
the rpnorta reoa rdiuU Russia's mObill.