The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-09

London. Feb. s.-The Paris correspond ent of The Daily Mail says that France has agreed. with other powers, to land troops in China directly hostiiities begin in order to insure neutrality of the Middle Kingdom.
 In dispatch from Tientsin, q core spondent there of The Standard says a Russian force Is reported at Kalgan Gn Pe-Chi-L province, 110 miles northwest of Pekin and near the Great WalD and that preparations are being made for the flight of the Chinese court and the re. inoval of the imperial treasure, as 1t if feared that Russia will descend upon Pe- kin.
 Russia is negotiating with a syndicate of French, Belgian and Dutch bankers, " cables the Brussels correspondent of The Standard. flor loan of $20O. 000. 900"
 Russia Faced the Issue.
 Tn despatch dated Nagasaki Saturday February 6. and which was delayed by the censor, a correspondent of The Daily Telegraph asserts that Russia deliberate fly precipitated the crisis by secretly des- patching a few days ago from Port Arthur transports loaded with a full division of troops and escorted by a fleet and landing them near the Yalu River, thus occupying Northern Korea.
  and today Japan moved her ships and took unresisetd possession of certain mer- chant vessels including the Shilka and Manchuria."
 : The correspondent continues: TWO other Russian vessels were seized and escorted to SaseboK, Japan"
 The Daily Telegraph says it supposes the foregoing seizures occurred at Ma sampho, but that the censor suppressed the location.
 Seoul to be Occupied. y In dispatch from Tokio, a correspond ent of The Daily Mall says Jiii ShimpO has received a telegram from Fusan, Ko- req, declaring that the firing of guns was heard to the east of Koje Island tabout twenty-five miles southwest of Fuean) at o'clock Saturday mornig.
 ! The chee Foo correspondent of The Daily Mail cables that sixty Japanese transports are landing troops at various points In Korea from Masampho and Fusan. on the south to Kunsa. Mokpho and Chemulpo on the west.
 Seoul .is to hp occupied and the landing is covered hT kornA1o divisions. The lnaEn body oE khs 9epanese gleef tlle cor. reapondsnt says. viii sail In the direction of Port Arthur. A dispatch received here from Port Ar thur says news has been received there that Japehese troops have landed at Ma sampho.
 No such arrangement as suggested by the St. James Gazette (that demand will be made that Russia must either grant Chinese sovereignty on Manchu- ria or fight Great Britain and the Unit ed States) Is known by the foreign off, flee here-nor had the foreign office, late tonight, received news of the embarka- tion of Japanese troops.
 Finally, neither at the British foreign office nor in any other diplomatic quar- ter Is any hope entertained that media tion could not be arranged. The foreign oftice nor does not understand the Jap- anese demand presented February 5, to the British foreign of flee by M. Kurino as establish ing a state of war. though it holds 1t would justify a hostile act without any further notification on the part of Ja- pan, which the foreign office here also understands will not be given. The course taken by the United States em- bassy at St. Petersburg in undertaking to look after the interests of Japanese subjects in Russia was adopted because the British government regarded itself as being too intimately concerned in the dispute to affect such responsibility.