Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-07
RESTLESS KOREANS
An Outbreak at Seoul May
 Prove War Torch
RUSSIAN FLEET FOR PORT ARTHUR
Hostile Preparations Continue-Re- ported Japan Cam Concentrate 3OO,OOO Men In Manchuria to
 Oppose Russia's 100000.

ported Japan Cam Concentrate
 3OO,OOO Men In Manchuria to
 Oppose Russia's 100000.
 LONDON, Jan. TIA dispatch from Tokyo says:
 All the. Russian warships recently at Vladivostok are reported to have sailed. probably for Port Arthur. Rus sia's reply has not yet been received by Japan. There is strong, widespread tendency to doubt the reports of the alleged conciIiatory character of the reply
 The idea of the possibility of peace has pretty well sunk to zero. The pub lie mind is prepared at any moment to he q of an armed collision arising from the landing of Japanese troops In Korea, to prevent which purpose the fusileer battalion has been dis patched frcsn vlM1ivostok
 No threats whatever will cause Rus sia to recede. No further diplomatic correspondence will be admitted con corning Manchuria or Korea.
 Advices from the far east all have m oninous tone, with Korea the cen ter of interest, as the landing of Amer ican marines at Seoul has added inter est in view of a possible clash in that territory between Japan and Russia. The Koreans are restive and threaten an outbreak. While the Americans at Seoul have not been reported actually menaced, their safety Is a matter of concern to which the government has given full weight.
 The Japanese minister in an inter- view here said he looks for victory for Japan in the event of war. The minister said his country was in a pc sition to rapidly center 100000 men in Manchuria, while Russia could with difficulty send there only 100000 men. He said that the naval forces of Japan were numerically superior to those of Russia and from a military standpoint were worth double.
 If war breaks out" said the minis ter. fit will last for only few weeks"
 An official cable says a Russian lega- tion guard of thirty has been landed at Chemulpo, but the Japanese railway has refused to transport 1t to Seoul. It is reported that preparations have been made for the emperor of Korea to find an asylum at the French lega- tion in the event of serious trouble. It is expected that France and Germany will send marines here to guard their legations.
 It is reported that the Germans at Kfaochau are supplying the Russians with coal and gunners and that Admi- ral Alexieff's agents are offering large sums to induce American and British gunners to desert and go to Port Ar thur.
 A report from Shanghai says Japan has learned that the Russian squadron at Bizerta has been instructed to shad- ow Japan's new cruisers and be in readiness to attack them in the event of war being declared.
 prrhe cruisers Niasin and Kasaga, which were recently bou Int at Genoa from Argentina, will be taken through the strait of Gibraltar by English oth- cers and English crews instead of by the Suez canal in order to avoid pos sible attack by Russian naval forces.
 A Tokyo dispatch says the Russian reply to the Japanese proposals has ar rived at the Russian legation here, and it is supposed it has been communicat- ed to Baron Komura, the Japanese for eign minister, at long conference with Baron de Rosen, the Russian min ister, but that nothing is known re. garding it.
 The Korean foreign minister here refused to give his consent to the send ing of American marines to Seoul, but he could not make all effective protest.
 An urgency meeting of the Japanese cabinet has been called for today for the purpose of considering the reply of Russia to the fast Japanese note, and the British cabinet has been sum- noned for Saturday for the purpose of discussing the attitude of Great Britain in the light of the Russian reply.
 This question is beginning to be most anxiously discussed by the British press.
 The papers arc almost unanimous in Irdmitting that. even if the war should be confined to Russia and Japan, Great Britain cannot possibly see Japan crushed and that although not called upon to interfere by the terms of the Anglo. Japanese treaty and that while hostilities may be confined to the two nations, yet in the event of Japan suf- fering a great naval defeat Great Brit ain would be almost compelled to go to her assistance.
 A Tokyo official of the government when interviewed said: "The definite occupation by Russia of Manchuria would be a permanent menace to the independence of Korea, which Japan must prevent at any price. for Korea is m advance post of Japan's line of de- Tense. and the safety of Korea is a con-