Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-10-17
Report from Yokohama Says There
Is No Danger of Conflict Be-
tween Japan and Russia.
AFFAIRS Between THE two
COUNTRIES ARE MARKING TINE
Russian Foreign once Declares MAN.
churian Question IL Closed ut Pres
don and Berlin IL Far, Less Alarm.
1aK-Much Reassur1ng News.

surd. Russo-Japanese affairs are
marking time.
The second secretary of the Russian
legation left Toxic October IL with
secret dispatches from the Russian
viceroy of the far east, Admiral
Alexieff.
An important conference of veteran
Japanese statesmen, including Mar
quis Ito, was held at the premisr's Of
fee Tuesday.
says Question IL Closed.
st. Petersburg, Oct. 1.-THE foreign
Office says it has no official conf1rma-
ton of the reported Decentralization of
Japanese troops at Na-San-Pho. Re-
garding Aanchuria the foreign Office
states that the question il at present
closed. The existing situation is the
fault Of the Chinese, Japanese and
British III China desired to reopen
the negotiations and accept certain
conditions the situation could still be
changed, as Russia is not rooted to the
soil and could leave II she liked.
No Need for Alarm.
London, Oct. 14.-Baron Hayashi,
the Japanese minister here, has re-
ceived rsassuring news from Japan
with reference to the situation in the
far east. He says his telegram indi-
Gates that there is no need whatever
for alarm and adds that the message
was not reply to anything he had
cabled, 80 he thinks it was probably
sent because of the alarmist rumors
which have been in circulation in Eu-
rope and which finally reached Japan.
The trend Of Tuesdays early infor-
nation regarding the far eastern situa-
ton is less alarming. The Frank
furter Zeitung, whose sensational an
nouncement Of the occupation of Ma
San-Pho by Japan Monday occasionsd
disquiet, publishes telegram from
Shanghai saying there IL no condrma-
ton Of the reported occupation Of that
place adding that the Russo-Japanese
negotiations at Toxic concerning the
evacuation of Manchuria give the i'm
preston that the political situation in
Japan is quiet.
The Koelnische Zeitung also prints
a reassuring telegram from St. Peters
burg, repeating telegram from Port
Arthur, stating that Viceroy Alexieff
has issued contradiction Of the re-
ported movements of Japanese troops
to Corea. The telegram adds that the
reports circulated on the subject are
evidently only intended to serve the
purposes of speculation and provoke
disQuiet.
A special dispatch from Rome says
that AZ Japanese officers who have
been studying at the military academies
of Modena and Raccogini, have been
called to Japan by telegraph and i'm
mediately started for Brindisi, to en-
bark for Japan.
The meeting of British admirals at
Singapore has no connection with any
special tension at present existing in
the far east. The meeting was an
nounced as far back as August Is for
the purpose of enabling the command
ers of the East Indian, China and Aus
tralian stations to confer with refer
ence to a general scheme whereby the
three sQuadrons can be used in the
event of necessity, instead of each be-
ing confined, as heretofore, to the
sphere definitely assigned to its juris-
diction. It has been arranged that a
similar conference shall be held an
nually.
View at Berlin.
Berlin, Oct. 14.-The foreign Office
here now looks upon the situation in
the far east as being less grave. Both
Japan and Russia appear willing to ar
range a modus vivendi concerning
Corea, which country, and not Man
churia, is the extreme point Of differ
ence. Russia, it is asserted, would
consider it casus belli were Japan
to land troops at Ma-San-Pho.
The foreign Office says no secret
agreement exists between Russia and
Germany relative to East Asia and that
the only agreement concerning East
Asia which Germany has is that of
1900 with Great Britain. The CORE
spondence respecting this agreement
has been fully published.
Count Inouye, the Japanese minis
ter, says everything in the dispute
between. Japan and Russia will be set
tied amicably. ....--
The Rome correspondent, Of the
Cologne Gazette, says that it is now
certain that the proposed visit of the
car to Rome has not only been post
poned, but that it has been completely
abandoned. - II i s..s' =.
"'5iss,@ No Sign Of Hostilities. .
Washington, Oct. 14.-At the cabinet
meeting Tuesday Secretary Hay spoke
Of information he had received as to thu
situation in the far east, and it wa.
his opinion that there was no immediate
Indication Of hostilities between Russis
and Japan. He intimated that negotia.
Ittons are in progress between the two
countries which seem likely to result
fGHorably for neacs.