The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
HURT BY CRITICISM
ST. PETERSBURG JOURNAL CON- PLAINS OF FOREIGN
 HOSTILITY.
Says czar's Policy in China Has Not Justified the Comments of the American Press-The Russ
 ian Side.

Correspondence of the Associated Press }
 St. Petersburg. July 2.-The vestnik
 Europy views with deep concern the fact that the foreign press is again largely inimical to Russia. Even old friends like the United States have lately dis played in their press a hostility such as has hitherto characterized England alone." says this long established and dig nified review which continues as follows:
 Our policy in China scarcely 1U:tined the reproaches which the American. press is heaping upon is. We suffered in- comparably pcle from the Chinese trou- bies thaia any of the other powers and nevertheless we have taken far less thought of compensation and of the de- others have. Under the compulsion of events which we did not foresee or which we could not prevent we had to occupy Manchuria. Once we had entered g. Chl- nese province we could not leave 1t until order had been restored and the opera tion of our railroad had been ensured When this has been accomplished we could not make up our minds to place the results of our efforts in jeopardy again and so we kept deferring the evacu- alton of the provinces that we had occu- pied in order to obtain from the Chi nese government some guarantees for the future. In this logical sequence of cir cumstanees one can scarcely find traces of treacherous policy of conquest which would properly occasion the dissatisfac- tion and the protests of the interested powers Sooner could we be convicted hnndInGcnn6c tAaN R1,- acquisition of railroad in foreign ter ritory. Reliance upon old neighborly friendship was in itself a risky under taking.
 The vacillations. contradictions and uncertainties in our conduct and in our declarations about the Manchurian uues- tion can easily be traced to causes which are perfectly applicable to us but which we do not exist as far as foreign cabi- nets are concerned. In Manchuria three separate authorities are at work and each has It's own views and seeks in it's own way to defend the interests of the State. The ministry of foreign affairs is natur- ally chiefly mindful to avoid all misun- derstandings and conflicts with foreign powers and is therefore always inclined to make peaceable declarations even in cases where their fulfillment does not de- pend on the diplomatists alone The min istry of war Is, for it's part, unable to withdraw troops from a region that still needs military protection and is therc- fore often compelled to have recourse to measures against which diplomacy has pronounced in it's declarations"
 The Vestnik Europy, however regards the 'insolent tone of the foreign press towards Russia" as due to something be- yond errors of diplomacy or weakness of foreign policy.
 We have to do here," 1t continues. with one of many symptoms of a deep fundamental antagonism, for which in ternational questions serve only as a convenient pretext.
 Diplomatic hypocrisy. treachery and cunning in foreign politics. all that we are reproached with in our dealings with China are to far higher degree charac- teristic of the English and in part of other nations also. We need here men ton only the conduct of the Americans In Cuba before and after the Spanish war. but particularly their actions in the How quickly the civilizng mission of the emancipators degenerated here into an open policy of robbery and