The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-28
RESENTED By RUSSIA.
Gable Matter Has Aroused 4 Bitter
Feeling.


ST. Petersburg, Feb, 5I.--The BouTsc
Cazette tsdaE .1aFee KFssss fneass,
dispatch. saving the United STATES has
undertaken TO lay a submarine cable
from the Philippians islands 90 Japan
10 prevent the iattsr's isolo tiou I'm case
The Russians eat the Shanghai cable
the subject Of bitter attack uuon the
government at Washington For this
new evidence of ifs breach of neutral
ity.' claiming that The contention of
the United States that the landing of
thu cable viii be undertaken for the
Improvement of trade relations does
lOI clear Americas skirts and inuuir-
ing What the Americans would say if
Germany had run cable from kio
shoU 90 Port Arthur or NiadiyOStok?"
Irritation Aggravated.
The news that the United states had
avscnted 10 she extension of lhe Pa
oihc cable TO Jauan. with the reasons
therefor assigned I'm the dispatches
from Washington sfjil further agra
waited the popular belief that he Unit
ed states IS siding with Japan against
Russia. The few Americans in St
Petersburg have all remarked upon the
changed demeanor Of their Russian
friends Formerly they were treated
with the greatest cordia6ty. but now
Tho Russians greet them With the ques-
Ton:
rs America our secret enemy and
VIII we have 10 fight her also before
the var comes 40 an end
Friendly Ties Severed.
Hou deeply The Russians are wound
ca hy the belief, destined unless
checked. soon 10 become "a conviction.
1hat AneIica has spurncd her old
friend and isnov playing hostile role,
is shown by tbis severance OF person.
az ties. of which 81 striking instance
occurred this week in a prominent
Russian friend of aa American lady
declined her uroHered hand. Upon the
lady's exclamation % astonish1ant her
friend burst into teSF and said she
fcit aggrievcd at an Americans siure
The reported actiog 81 fhe C8anfa udor
y ui the United States guuooat Weeks
burg at Chemulro.
The attitude oil the United States IS
subject Of constant discussion eVea
in Che highest circles here. where vi %
the greatest regret The fear Is ok
pressed that The two countries, WITH
ont excuse 50 far as Russia s. con-
Cerued, seem To he drifting apart. TIE
recently reported cancellation of
american contracts indicates how the
resentment az American supposed hos
tility has invaded business affairs.
Press u Blame
Popular feeling is. of course. 10 DE
largely attributed 90 certain of the
Russian uewspapeTs which have sud-
denly turned their batteries from Great
Britain 10 the United states and haze
seized every ruwOr 10 place the WORST
possible Interpretation upon its acts
Without waiting for an explanation
which IL is apparent from tie dis
patches received here today from
Washington. viii pint another complex
Jon upon the Nieksburg incident the
columns of the press foI days pass
lave been fun of excited comment
b4sea on the original version ~ toe az
fair. IN spite of The state II popular
CpiuiOn the government. il can De con-
fGently asserted, places the highest
value ON American friendship and al
though the course OF American di-
plomacy is at times privately viewed
askance. officially the government Of
tEc czar assumes that the American
attitude has been strictly correct. nor
IS the slightest disposition 10 question
its acts manifested.
No Explanation Asked.
Al the foreign office today the As
scented Press was informed that Ihe
government know nothing officially OF
the NicksbUrg incident. and that lt
bad not Instructed Count Cassiui the
Russian ambassador al Washington. 10
ask for an explanation. II was. how
ever, said 70 be possible that the am
bassad0r had coufteOusly inquired as
10 the truth OF the Eicksburg reports
without having had specific instrue-
lions in the matter.
Regarding the reports Of the cable
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