Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-01-21
lNCLINEs TO PEACE
PAVING WAY FOR RUSSIA TO Elk.
PLAIN HER sAcKDowN.
Action of United States in Making
Treaty with China Upsets viceroy
AIexieff's Calculations - Koreans
Are Bitter Against Foreigners.

Are Bitter Against Foreigners.
London. Jan. 20.-The German
newspapers this morning appear to
be paving the way to explain the Rus
sian retreat in the negotiations with
Japan, and in all the capitals of Eu-
rope information inclines to peace.
In dispatch from Toxic the CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail says a
lengthy meeting of the cabinet was
held Tuesday. The correspondent
says he has learned that Mr. Kurino,
Japanese minister at St. Petersburg,
has sent in a confidential report, in
which he says that at recent meet
gin of grand dukes, the minister of war
kuropatkin. and some of his col
leagues declared for peace.
According to the Toxic correspond.
ent of the Standard the privy council
will be convened today to discuss i'm
portant measures bearing on the sit
uation.
The Port Arthur correspondent OF
the Daily Mail declares that eleven
Russian battalions of artillery, with
cavalry and infantry, have been dis
patched to the Yalu river. He men
tions also an unconfrmed report that
Japan has landed troops in southern
Korea
The Picking correspondent of the
Times declares in dispatch that ia
pans latest note is stronger in tone
than the preceding one, and that she
will neither yield her moderate stand
point nor accept the mediation of a
third power. Not only to the Japa-
nese, but to the American and Brit
ish ministers, the report continues,
has China given satisfactory assur-
ance of her intention to maintain
strict neutrality, in connection with
Lord Lansdowne advice.
The Port Arthur correspondent of
the Daily Mail cables that he has had
an interview with Admiral Alexieff,
the Russian viceroy in the far east,
who spoke hopefully of the possibility
of arranging a modus vivendi with
Japan. The yiceroy then referred the
correspondent to his diplomatic agent,
M. Plancton, who emphasized the pos
sibility of Russia's evacuation of Man.
churia. The correspondent adds that
the action of the United States gov
eminent in making commercial
treaty with China without Russias
consent. had quite upset Viceroy Alex.
ieff's calculations.
Toxic, Jan. 1S.-Japan does not an
ticipate Russia's rejoinder for at least
one week. In the meantime the ma
ton is prepared and grimly reconciled
to war. Political and other distinc-
tions have disappeared and the coun-
try is periodically united. The gov
eminent is receiving many offers of
contributions in the event of war
amounting to many million of yen.
The Japanese people would welcome
an honorable peace, but are resolved
to fight before receding from their po-
sition in Oriental affairs. They fear
the aggression of Russia, and believe
if it is not stopped now it will never
be stopped. They are confident that
their demands are fair and moderate
and their diplomacy, which has been
patient, has gone to a reasonable lin
it. They expect the worlds sympathy
in the struggle and have splendid
confidence in their army and navy.
In the event Of reverses or a national
disaster, it is thought that England
and the United States would inter-
vene to preserve balance of power
in eastern Asia. There is no fear of
an invasion of Japan, country which
is probably the most strongly defend
ed one in the world. The growth of
British and American sentiment is
remarked. Numerous displays of the
flags Of the two nations are made and
popular songs reciting the glories of
the "lion" and "Uncle Sam" are sung.