The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-21
Great Storm of Indignation Against Russia Sweeps
 Over Entire Nation.
FIRM STAND BYGOYERNMENT
GRAVE UTTERANCES BY ITS IN
 SPEED ORGAN.

Has Marked AngIo-Russian Relations in Twenty Years-British Protest Made At st. PetersBurgAseized Steamer Held at Port said-London Times Declares No Government Can Allow Her to be Taken to Russian Port or be Condemned by Russian Prize Court.
 London, May 20. The Associated Press tonight interviewed many prorn- inent persons connected and in close touch with the government relative to the seizure Of British vessels by steam CTS of the Russian volunteer fleet in the Red sea. As result of these inquiries there is shown a remarkable hostile feeling against Russia of a strength and a bitterness almost without precedent since the Crimean war. Even the most conservative who have been in the service of the government for many years and who openly deplore the haste with which they thought Great Britain had plunged into the Transvaal war, tonight frankly declared for policy of reprisal against which is regarded here as Russia's violation. of treaties and her piratical attack on British com- merce.
 The warlike tone of such papers as the Times, the Standard, the Morning Post and the Daily Telegraph which in national crises hitherto almost in- variably advised caution, has had it's inevitable effect. There has been stir red up a strom of indignation among all classes in the United Kingdom the strength of which the government it. self can scarcely gauge.
 Those who deDlored the outbreak of the war between Japan and Russia and insisted publicly and privately that Great Britain, crippled financially after her South African experiences, must not at all costs be drawn into the far eastern struggle, are now among the most outspoken champions of a physical force that will prevent the repetition of the Malacca incident in the Red sea-.
 Those few officials at the foreign of fee who are in full possession of all the details of Great Britain's desire to arrive at an entente with Russia on in despair. They realize that the poli- cy so carefully fostered by King Ed ward and Foreign Minister Lansdowne would now be indignantly repudiated by all parties in the house of commons and involve with the public the down fall of any ministry advocating it, Every nerve will be strained, however, by the foreign office to secure from Russia an explanation that will pacify the agrieved feelings of the British public. and no step will be taken of ficially that will tend to prejudice sub sequent diplomatic negotiations looking to 3tfle settlement of all important questions, outstanding between Russia and Great Britain.
 Lord Lansdowne,n says the Daily Telegraph, voicing the views of the government, @has faced the situation created by the abuse of the right of search in the only manner worthy of a British minister compelled to defend the interests of British commerce and the honor of the flag and acting with unhesitating irmness and promptitude
  national policy, he has justified the trust of the country.
 While not one rash word should be said which could have the effect. of in creasing the tension of an anxious and dangerous interval. it would be futile to disguise the character or to mini r1ize the risks of the situation which has arisen. We hope and believe that g solution of the difficulty may still be found in the withdrawal of the Russian government from it's false position. It Is obvious # the volunteers passed the Dardanelles as merchant vessels they cannot be allowed to SCOUT the Red sea as warships. The doors of the Black sea must either be open or shut If open to warships they must be so to all warships. If the Russian fleet is to be permitted to emerge fin violation of treaty provisions, the British fleet must be allowed to enter upon those terms
 Tt is no secret that we have not been unwilling to remove the existing veto of the Dardanelles and enable those straits to be traversed by the navies of all nations"
 The Telegraph goes on to say that the stores of the Malacca were plainly marked with the broad arrow, showing that they belonged to the British gov ernment and were destined only for a British depot Tt would be impossible to conceive a more remarkable accumu- lation of illegality and error than has attended the present case, the paper says If this country were capable, under any circumstances, of tamely en- during so grave an injury to the most vital of it's interests, and so great an insult to it's honor, we should have for feited our claim to be a great nation. In any circumstances, we think 1t may be assumed that the Malacca will never be navigated by a prize crew to any Russian port She is watched, If not actually stopped, by British warships, and she will, in any case, be restored to her owners long before she can be talk
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