The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-29
Said to be JnfaTOrab|e to
 Japan
NO ALTERNATIVE REMAINS
Japs Will Notify Derosen That She Must Take Up Arms-Financial Programme Has Been
 Outlined.

London, January 29.-The Daily Tele- graph claims to be able to affirm that Russia's draft to her reply has not yet been officially presented to Japan, but that it has been communicated to M. <urino, the Japanese minister at St. Pe- tersburg, who has transmitted the con- tents to Todo, whence it will be con- veyed to the friendly powers. The Rus sian reply is courteous the Daily Tele- graph continues, but 1t refuses in uncom- promising terms to permit the reinsertion in the draft of the treaty of the two words guaranteeing the integrity and in- dependence of China, upon which Japan insisted in her last note.
 The clause proposed by Japan was that Russia and Japan should agree to respect the Integrity and independence of China and Korea
 Russia has now stricken out twice the words China and," and it is understood this will close the negotiations.
 It is probable, the Daily Telegraph states, that when this notice has been presented. Japan will notify Baron De- rosen, the Russian minister at Tokio, that she has alternative but to take up arms in defence of her interests, and that M. Kurino will be instructed to demand his passports.
 In the meanwhile instructions have been sent to the two Japanese cruisers now at Colombo to proceed to Singapore, where, In the event of war being declared, their crews will be paid off and the vessels laid up.
 Financial Programme Outlined.
 London, Jan4ary 2S.-In dispatch from rfxr the financial programme of the govern ment as follows:
 1. loan of 10000 900 yen ($50,0O0o o00). g. The government to draft into the treasury the local land taxes amounting to 2500o.000 yen.
 B. An increase of other taxes to yield 15,000,000 yen.
 f. Suspension of public works and ad- ministrative retrenchments, amounting to 4O,000000 yen.
 The total of s0,OoO.ooO yen obtained by these last three items will be devoted to securing of war loans.
 Will Not Supply Carts.
 London, January 2s.-The Pekin corre- spondent of the Times cables that Tseng Chi, the Tartar general of Mukden has telegraphed the foreign board at Pekin that the Russians have demanded that he supply 800 carts for immediate military service.
 The board replied that owing to China s decision of neutrality Tseng Chi must de- cline the supplying of carts in question.
 Japan Requests Haste.
 London, January 2S.-A dispatch to Reu- ter's telegram agency from TOXIC says the elder statesmen were received in audience by the emperor today and that 1t is gen. orally believed in Tokio that Japan has requested Russia to hasten her reply. Russian military activity on the Korean frontier is exciting increasing uneasness.
 Crisis May Be a Month Off.
 London January 29.-There is nothing in the dispatches published this morning to show that the statement of the Daily Graphic is anything more than 'intelli- gent anticipation The dispatch to the Associated Press from St. Petersburg on the meeting of the council of state, is the latest St. Petersburg news to reach here. The Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph both report in their St. Petersburg dis patches the possibility of further negotia- tions, the latter paper saying the culmi- nation of the crisis is not expected be- fore the beginning of March and report ing a sudden rise on the St. Petersburg bourse.
 A special to the Standard from Tolxio says that according to information from sure source. large bodies of Russian troops are being moved to the Korean frontier from Flung Huang Chang and other points in the interior of Manchuria- dispatch to the Daily Mail from Seoul reports the arrival of a thousand Russian troops at Autung yesterday. A dispatch from Nagasaki to the Daily Telegraph affirms that the Korean government has blunt1y refused the renewed demands of Italy for the gold mining concession in Korea.