The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28

cony one Is confronted by the Russian officer; well-built, natty, dignified and doubly proud and conscious of the fact that he Is servant of his lord, the Czar. The word "Czar" is seldom used by Rus sians; they speak of their monarch as Emperor" The Russian officer comes al- most invariably from the well-to-do or aristocratic families and supports him. self from his private income. He could not hold his social position otherwise. as the Czar does not pay his officers any too well. Just the reverse to the officer is the Russian soldier. an inherent disciple of filth. dirt and squalor. He is irregular of feature and big of physique, but his stu pidity Is most pronounced and strongly verif1es the fact of governmental neglect of the lower classes in the matter Of edu- cation. But stupidity, however. has it's moments of relaxation. even in Russian soldier brutish and ignorant as he IS The following incident, which happened in Vladivostok during the writer's soJourp there, will tend to illustrate the feelings of animosity against the Japanese which at present prevail throughout Siberia and Manchuria. There are numbers of Japa- nese in vladivostok following various vo- cations, and short as they are they arc not too SIla1l III SldtuTe dS lO DC SVVh ohes ferreted out by Russian soldiers. who take fiendish delight in handling them roughly and intimidating them. One af' ternoon a short time ago. big. burly Russian trooper, coarse and bloated In face and figure. and a beard that none but a Russian dare exhibit strutted up to little. almond-eyed brown man on one of the main roads and demanded of him his passport The Jap, not being gifted in the language of the country, explained in his best English, accompanied by a doff of the can and a sweeping bow, that he had left his identification papers at home, whereupon the Russian. probably becoming incensed over the politeness of | the Japanese, which possibly looked 10 him as affected, seized the little subject of the Mikado about the neck and violent | ly shook him until his head actually rat tied, ard marched him off to headduar- l ters. in the meantime muttering be'ween his teeth in the most broken English im- aginahle: "By-and-by fight. ehT'
 Watching Japanese.
 Since the advent of the present Russian Japanese embroglio, the Russian officials | in Vladivostock and elsewhere in the Ori- ent have spared no pains and trouble in keeping a close watch on the Japanese in the country. It is we'll known to the off, cials that there are many Japanese within their city and thereabouts acting in the capacity of merchants, but who are in reality government spies. Because of these stringent measures adopted to keep the Sily Jap from seeing too much there have been frequent clashes between both | Russians and Japanese, and often ] times recourse to the Mikado' diplomatic representative. which has re- suited in many cases in the alleged of lenders being sent out of the country.
 The Japanese find it exceedingly diff cult to move about in any part of ST beria or Manchuria without the Russian officials becoming cognizant of the fact This is the main reason why they Qht Japanese are entirely at sea concerning the quota of Russian forces at present il the Far East.
 If the Russians are ferreting out th' Japs in Siberia and Manchuria, they arr also losing no time in studying the stra
 tegical zones of the Japanese Empire through the medium of governmen
 agents, who may be either Germans
 French or Englishmen. The most impor
 tant fortified positions in 0apan are thu entrance to Nagasaki harbor, at Shimo
 loseki, the Southern entrance to tLe In
 land sea, the extensive position on thu
 Island of Await. which command tn
 northern entrance to the Inland sea-, anC line, of works commanding the entrance to Yokohama and TolSio. These. posi-
 tions are of vital importance to the Jap anese and they allow no camera O
 sketchIng within radius of several mile
 of any battery. During the, past fev months several foreigners. who happened to be in the vicinity of certain of thes positions, were taken into custody, ant had considerable difficulty in securing
 their release. The Japanese alarmis
 press spread the report throughout thu
 country that several Russian spies hat
 been detected in making maps of forti fications. and had been arrested. Not little excitement was caused thereby. & suspicious have the Japs of late be 1 come that any foreigner who happens t.
 be in a district little frequented by for eigners is shadowed, and followed by sol
 diers and police in disguise until h,
 makes his way back to one of the opel
 ports.
 While the writer was standing on tn, deck of a small steamer in the little land
 locked bay of Nagasaki. previous to start
 ing on his trip to Vladivostok, there cam,
 aboard an eledrely man, slovenly in ap
 pearance and unkempt of face, who tool passage in the steerage. When the steam
 CT arrived In Vladivostok this person wa,