The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-19
ON MOVE.
Four Thousand Russian De.
parting from Port Arthur.
Officials Insist That War Is Not
Expected.
WILL LET KOREA GO.
Russia Seems Content With
Hanging on to Manchuria.
Much Irritation Felt Against
England and America.
WILL LET KOREA GO.

troops are TO leave mere tomorrow
bound northward. Otherwise city life
is normal and there has been no exo-
dus of families.
Applications by correspondents desir-
ing to accompany the forces have all
been met with a reply that hostilities
are not expected and, therefore it
would be premature to issue permits.
The authorities here state definitely
that Russia has no intention or desire
to interfere in Korea, even should Jap
an continue to land small bodies of
troops there in contravention of the
existing treaties, as the Russians as
sert the Japanese are doing under the
pretext that they are only railway
guards.
PLANS FOR RETALIATION.
New York, Jan.19.-It is now an open
secret here, cables the Heralds St. Pc
tersburg correspondent, that the Japa-
nese reply is distinctly negative, and
its extremely courteous tone is only
equalled by the f1rmness of spirit which
characterizes it.
The foreign office and all the princi-
pals are so engrossed with work that it
is we'll nigh impossible to get a word
from them and the various agencies
were treated to stereotyped official
phrases implying that diplomacy is still
D0lIlS uSeQ-
1t is stated that their majesties and
the ministers are most active.
The Tsars advisers have been in
duced to try to work out some plan
whereby the amour propre of both
countries can be saved, but the compli-
cations and political entanglements
seem beyond the powers of any one to
find q solution.
Englands so-called pro-Japanese
policy is exciting serious attention in
nnlifiCQ1 circles the COrrQSnOn0Rnt con-
tinues. 1t is a growing sentiment that
Russia has not got to do with Japan
so much as with England and the
AnglO-JapanSe alliance is at the bot
tom of all the present trouble. An
echo is now loudly heard of the utter
ances of those politicians who at the
moment of the Anglo-Japanese alli-
ance announced and proclaimed that
Russia as destroying the balance of
power in the far east.
1t is urged by many politicians that
the time has come for Russia to retail
ate by a demonstration toward the In
dian frontier and also by aggressive po-
litical tactics in Persia
Diplomatic circles attention is called
to the reported frigid reception of the
British ambaSSa dor recently by Count
Lamsdorff, minister of foreign affairs.
There is intense irritation in the high
est quarters, the correspondent de-
clures, against England and the same
sentiment is being extended to Amer
ica.
AMERICAS IRRITATING VICTORY
St Petersburg Jan. 19.-Tnere is no
truth in the statement telegraphed to
the Cologne Gazette that personal in
terView between the czar and the Jap
anese minister, Kurino, had been ar
ranged 1t would be most unusual for
the czar to give a personal audience to
a simple minister, and it is authorita-
lively denied that such meeting was
ever contemplated.
It is confirmed from japanese source
that Russia in notifying Japan of her
recognition of treaty rights in Manchu-
ria expressly excepted the privileges OF
foreign settlements and it is further
said that the United States had been in
formed that Japan was disposed TO con-
test that point, which is considered
vital in the excerpt of trade provisions
All the newspapers today publish edi-
toriaIs on the mediation suggestion and
declare such a step is unnecessary.
The press generally admits with some
irritation that a great victory has been
won by American diplomacy In Man
- ECHOED FROM AMERICA.
London, Jan. ia Russian corre-
spondent of the Times comments on the
czar's New Year peace message only
| became known in ST. Petersburg
through the retransmission from New
York of the Associated Press from st
!
exact words not only to Mr. Kurino, the
Japanese minister, but to the other
| DIPLOMATS assembled at the winter
! palace.
message could only be published in Rus
sia with the special permission of the
| government and it indicates an aspect
of the situation which has a great deal
more to do with Russia's present atti-
| tude than is generally understood
The correspondent goes on to say:
Nothing surprised the Russians so
much during the past year as the great
! American people toward Russia, and
nothing has been kept so closely in
view as the possibility, which was to be
avoided at all hazards, of serious COM
plications with the United States The
! ratification of the China-American
treaty may be said to have cut the
ground from under Russia's feet and
| in the circumstances Russia had noth-
ing to do but to acquiesce."
The czar in receiving the minister in
state at the Tsarko-Selo on Sunday de-
clared, says the Daily Nails St Peters
burg correspondent, that all danger OF
a conflict was now ended
/ All the special cablegramS from ST
Petersburg published in this morning S
i papers confirm the belief that the ten
sion has been greatly relaxed out ac-
| cOrding to the correspondent or the
Paris edition of the New York Herald,
1 there is a strong feeling in official quar-
ters in ST. Petersburg against the rep
| resentatives of both Great Britain and
the United States.
The special cablegrams from Toxic,
/ on the other hand, still reflect the bel
Icose feeling of the Japanese press and
people and suspicion of the Russian as
surances-
says that another conference of the
elder statesmen is about to be sum-
moned. The Daily Nails Pekin CORE