The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-04-12
ADVISERS URGE WAR
Ministers Want Gar to De-
clare War or China
Army Enlists Woman

A press dispatch from St. Peters
bur- says:
The czar is being strongly urged by
his ministers to declare war against
China. Even the Russian minister to
Peking, who. prior to the outbreak
of the present war. was friendly to
the Chinese government is hcslegins
the Russian ruler to take uD arms
against the Mongolian race. He says
that, as the Chinese are disaffected
toward Russia. their race hatred
should be brought clearly into the
light and made to take the form of
open hostilities which would warrant
Russia in carrying out her policy in
the far east much more effectively
than ever before. He AYERS that Rus
sia has everything to gain by open
war with China and much to lose by
her involuntary neutrality. That be-
ing so, it is taken for granted in po-
litical circles here. as well as in mill
tary spheres, that Lassar will compel
China to show her hand to some pur-
pose, and that in the very near future
war will be declared between the two
countries.
Repeated protests have been made
by the Russian minister at Pekin
against the dispatch of Chinese troops
beyond the great wall and he has
threatened that. unless they are speed
lily withdrawn, China will be treated
as a belligerent. AS a matter of fact.
these protests and threats are mere
provocations, because the district of
Liantse belongs to Manchuria, and
was formally and expressly returned
| to China b. Russia in October 1902.
and belongs theI to neutral China
and should be accordingly protected by
| Chinese troops.
Another provocative of the Russian
ambassador is the establishment of
| special Russian mission, appointed for
| the purpose of superintending the neu-
| trality of Chinese troops. That meas
ure is regarded here as an endeavor
to drive China into overt acts of war.
The plan which. in this eventualty
will be carried out by Russia is de-
scribed in military spheres here as fol-
lows: Peking. Tientsin. Tungchow and
Mongolia would be annexed to Russia
on the one hand, and the war would be
suddenly changed into a great strug-
gle between the yellow and white races
on the other, Russia becoming the au-
thorized champion of the latter.
The chief advisers of his ma iesty are
said to hold that, unless by measures
of this kind the oversee trade to China
be monopolized by Russia, the oppor-
tunity will slip by forever, because
once the Panama canal has been COM
pleted, the United States. as the great
Pacific power, will resolutely veto
every effort to seize the commercial
markets of China by means of territor-
ial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
ST. Petersburg, April i0.-The war
ministry has granted the application
of Madame Pourep, daughter of Col
onel Maxiowcondurow. who desired to
be enrolled in Cossack regiment. The
ministry has ordered her enrolment In
the First Regiment of Rifiemen.
Nine. Pourep is SO years of age. was
reared under the patronage of the late
Emperor Alexander III: is a fine
horsewoman, a good shot and handles
the rifle. revolver and sword equally
WELL She also is a qualified Red Cross
nurse. but she says there are enough
women nurses and she wants to show
that O woman can fight.