The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-10
RUSSIA'S STATEMENT
Cars Account of What Led
Up TO Rupture.
REVISED KOREA TREATY
This Was Made the Occasion
to Stir up a Ferment.

st. Petersburg, Feb. "a lengthy COM
munication issued today gives the Rus
sian account of the negotiations which
led to the rupture:
! Last year" says this foreign office
note, the Toxic cabinet, under the pre-
text of establishing the balance of pow
/ er and more settled order of things on
| the shores of the Pacific. submitted to
the imperial government. a proposal for
a revision of the existing treaties with
Korea Russia consented and Viceroy
AleXieff was charged to draw up a project
for a new understanding with Japan in
cooperation with the Russian minister
at Toxic who was entrusted with the
negotiations with the Japanese govern
ment. Although the exchange of views
with the Toxic cabinet on this subject
were of a friendly character, Japanese
social circles and the local foreign press
attempted in every WY 70 produce
warlike ferment among the japanese and
to drive the government into an armed
conflict with Russia. Under the influence
ulate greater and greater demands in
inc HcBOtidlIOi4S, DIT liz IAN
ing most extensive measures to make
the country ready for war. All these
circumstances could not, of course, dis
turb Russias equanimity but they in
duced her also to take military and naval
measures. Nevertheless, to preserve
peace in the far east, Russia, so far as
her incontestable rights and interests
permitted. gave the necessary attentions
TO the demands Of the Toxic cabinet and
declared herself ready to recognize Jap
ans privileged commercial and economic
proposition in the Korean peninsula with
the concession of the right to protect it
by military force in the event of disturb
anceS in that country. 1T the same time,
while vigorously observing the funda-
mental principles of her policy regard
ing Korea. whose independence and in
tegrity wereg uaranteed by previous I'M
derstandings with Japan and by trea-
ties with other powers, Russia insisted
on three points.
First-On a mutual aid condition to
guarantee this principle
Second-On an understanding to use no
part of eKrea for strategis purposes as
the authorization of such action on the
part of any foreign power was directly
opposed to the principle of independence
of Kerea.
Third-On preservation of the full free /
dom of navigation of the straits of Ko-
rea.
The project elaborated in this sense |
did not satisfy the Japanese government |
which in its proposals not only declined |
to accept the conditions which appeared |
as the guarantee of the independence of |
Korea but began at the same time to in |
sist on provisions to b incorporated in a !
project regarding the question of Man |
churia. Such demands of Japan, natural |
", were inadmissable, the question of |
Russias position in Manchuria, concern |
ing in the first place China. but also all |
the powers having commercial interests |
in China. The imperial government, there |
fore, saw absolutely no reason to include |
In a special treaty with Japan regarding /
Korean affairs, any provision concerning
territory occupied by Russian troops The |
imperial government, however did not |
refuse so long as the occupation of Man
ereignty of the Emperor of China in Man
churia and also the rights acquired there
by the other powers through treaties
with China A declaration to this effect |
had already been made TO the foreign
cabinets. In view of this the imperial