Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-13
WAR NOW IMMINENT.
Japan's Inaction Not Due to Wish For Intervention.

$ 8s
 LONDON. Jan. l3-A dispatch from Tokyo says that Japan has informed Great Britain and the United States that her apparent inaction is not due to desire for foreign mediation, but to policy deliberately adopted
 A Port Arthur dispatch says; "The Japanese are leaving here, and more than 100 have left Dalny in one day. The Russians regard the Japanese seix ure of Mukph0 as probable, with the object of making Russia fire the first shot. The trains from Europe are crammed with troops. It is reported the coal stores at Harbin"
 Owing to the threatening news re- ceived from Korea the commander of the Seventh Russian brigade has gone to the Yalu river to select temporary camps and effect concentration of troops.
 Owing to the apprehension of dar- ing dash oil the part of the Japanese at Port Arthur the authorities have taken extraordinary precautions in and about the town and along the whole line of the Manchurian railroad.
 Runors having been circulated here that the Japanese intend to surprise the warships in the harbor, vigilant watch Is kept night and day.
 The whole Russian fleet is now in fighting trim
 A dispatch from Tientsin says that the Russians have had severe brush with brigands at Hsiaokusan, neas Kirin. Manchuria.
 Mir. Kurino. the Japanese minister, in an interview, said that if war should come he believed it would ba a prolonged one. He said it was di61caat now to see how 1t conAd be decisive, considered solely from a military point of view. The majoRity ee the people 1 of Russia, said the pasniHteE. ssand many persons abroad haze ,lnderes- timated Japans strength. '.s sea pro vailing in some otherwise wei iaforll- l cd quarters that Japan Sosd be un- | able to put more than 200, ,0OO soldiers \ in the field. This idea is entirely er- ! roneous."
 ! If Japan occupies Korea the belief l prevails In some quarters that Russia 1 would not risk naval engagement, but would occupy northern Korea, Ja- l pan meanwhile possibly intrenching herself on the southern slope above l Gonsan, 115 miles northeast of Seoul. While this is merely speculation, in diplomatic circles 1t Is given as one of the reasons for believing that even in the event of the failure of the present l negotiations the desire of both sides to avoid the odium of an attack might lead to final delimitation of the tory occupied.
 A Shanghai cable says yiceroy Tsen has concluded loan with a German l firm for million taels in order to pur- chase Krupp mountain guns.
 X. To Blow Up Reconsideration Road. E LIVERPOOL, Jan. 13.--An interest ing statement in connection with the strategic value of the TranssiberiaH
 railway has been made by Fulford Bush, member of British mercan
 tile firm at Newchwang. Addressing the Liverpool chamber of commerce.
 MT. Bush, after covering the question of the light construction of the railway
 and the probability of the line being
 blocked if subjected to heavy military
 traffic said that his own observations
 coupled with trustworthy native infor
 nation, convinced him that at least
 200 Japanese military engineers dis
 guised as Chinese coolles, barbers and
 other menials had already been dis
 tributed at points along the railway
 and that 1t would not be a fortnigh after the declaration of war before thu
 line would be blown up at a dozer
 places.
 Bank President Dropped Dead. I MACK, N. Y, Jan 13. Dentor ] Fowler. president of the Peoples banl I of Haverstrnw and a prominent bricl I manufactures, dropped dead of hear ] disease here, aged seyenty.aine years.