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SAY RUM0RS OF
WAR ARE ABSURD
Report from Yokohama Says There
Is No Danger of Conflict Be-
tween Japan and Russia.
AFFAIRS Between The two
COUNTRIES Are MARKING time
Russian Foreign ONCE Declares Mans
churian Question Is Closed Mt Pres-
ent-TrenL of Information in Lon
don and Berlin Is Far Less A1arm-
ing-Much Reassuring News.

Yokohama, Oct. 14.-All reports !
emanating from Shanghai of the
opening of hostilities between Japan and .
Russia, etc., may be dismissed as abb
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 i
Quis Ito, was held at the premier's Of I
fee Tuesday.
Says Question L. Closed.
st. Petersburg, Oct. 14.-The foreign
Office says it has no, official confirma-
ton of the reported Decentralization of
Japanese troops at Ma-San-Pho. Re-
garding Manchuria the foreign office
states that the question is at present
closed. The existing situation is the
fault of the Chinese, Japanese and
British. If 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 if she liked.
No Need for Alarm.
London, Oct. 4.-Baron Hayashi,
the Japanese minister here, has re-
ceived reassuring news from Japan
with reference to the situation in the
Fn- Il l. al, ;,,l
Gates that there is no need whatever
for alarm and adds that the message
was not a reply to anything he had
cabled, so he thinks it was probably
sent because of the alarmist rumora
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 occasioned
disquiet, publishes a telegram from
Shanghai saying there is no confirma-
ton of the reported occupation of that
place adding that the Russo-Japanese
negotiations at Toxic concerning the
evacuation of Manchuria give the im-
preston that the political situation in
Japan is quiet.
The Koelnische Zeitung also prints
q reassuring telegram from st. Peters
burg, repeating a telegram from Port
Arthur, stating that Viceroy Alexieff
has issued a contradiction Of the res
ported movements of Japanese troops
to Corea. The telegram adds that the
reports circulated on the subject ara
evidently only intended to serve the
disquiet.
A special dispatch from Rome says
that 45 Japanese officers who have
been studying at the military academies
of Modena and Raccogini. have been
called to Japan by telegraph and im-
, 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 rs for
, the purpose of enabling the command
ers Of the East Indian, China and Aus
tralian stations to confer with refer
ence to 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. 1t has been arranged that q
similar conference shall be held an
nually.
/ View at Berlin.
Berlin, Oct. 1.-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 q 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 offlce 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 corre-
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 1t 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.
i No Sign of Hostilitles.
Washington, Oct. 14.-At the cabinet
meeting Tuesday Secretary Hay spoke
Of information he had received as to the
situation In the far east, and 1t was
his opinion that there was no immediate
Indication Of hostilities between Russia
and Japan. He intimated that negotia-
lions are in progress between the two
countries which seem likely to result
favorably for peace.
Monuments Are Dedicated.
Hagerstown, Nd, Oct. 14.-The ten
monuments erected on Antietam bat.
tleneld by the state of Ohio, including
the one to the memory of President
MCKINLEY, were dedicated Tuesday
with appropriate exercises and under
most suspicious circumstances. The
presence OF Sc many distinguished
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