The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-24
INCESSANT WAR ACTIVITY.
JAPAN'S PREPARATIONS RE.
 PORTED TO BE COMPLETE.

Government Calmly Awaiting Ruasisn Repiy-Russia Reported to Have Given Admiral AIexiefr Power to s'set. tie on the spot All Questtons Concern-
 sng Neighboring staies''-Gsrmany
 Believes England wal Take Part if
 War Breaks Out.
 London, Dec. 2S.-A dispatch to the Reuter- Telegram company from Tokio says: "Incessant activity prevails at military headquarters. The transport and other arrangements are complete. The government is calmly awaiting the Russian reply. which. it is hoped, will be '@rthcoming without delay.
 "..sress dispatches from Corea report continued disturbances at MokDho and the outbreak of a Tong-Hak insurrec- tion in Chol-la To province. The Tong
 Haks are party of malcontents whose activity was the immediate cause of the war between China and Japan. These reports create uneasiness.''
 St. Petersburg, Dec 2S.-According to telegram from Vladvostock, under to- days date, the Vostatschni vestnik says that Admiral Alexieff, the Russian viceroy of the far east, has been author ized to "settle on the spot all questions concerning neighboring states, and to take all the measures which appear ex- pedient." ::..
 Berlin. Dec. 2S.--The German foreign office, in estimating the probabilities of war in the far east, fixes it's attention at this moment on Great Britain rather than on Japan, for 1t is recognized that Japan is only waiting for Great Britain to give the word before beginning hos. tilittes. A new and even portentious element in the situation, as it is viewed here, is the rising feeling In Great Brit ain that Russia must yield or Japan and Great Britain ought to fight her. The Associated Press learns fro mthe high- est diolomatic source that the German government. while still refusing to be- lieve that war Is certain. is convinced now, that ie war between Russia and Japan comes, Great Britain will take q part in it. because the British govern ment looks upon war as possibly the only means of saving and re-establish- ing her position in the east.
 Sir Frank Lasceiies, the British ann bassador, who returned here from Eng land three days ago, is understood to have inparted his impression unofficial- ly to the German government that the British cabinet apprehended that war would result if Russia persisted in her present attitude towards Japan. This expression of opinion by the ambassa- dor was stripped of all suggestion that Great Britain might participate, but great significance is attributed to it.
 The leading financiers know nothing of any Russian overtures to float loan of s125,ooo.Oo0 in Germany. and the re- port to this effect published in the Tageblatt in dispatch from St. Peters, burg, is regarded as unfounded.
 Rome, Dec. 23.-The situation in the Far East is being followed with great interest here. The rumor which gained wide currency in Rome, that war had been declared between Russia and Japan was promptly contradicted by Mir ohoyama, the Japanese minister to Italy, who in an interview to-day said that Japan had the complete sympathy of the United States, which desired the independence and the pacific develop ment of Korea. The minister said he did not know what attitude would be taken by the United States government in the case of war between Japan and Russia.