Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-14
DECLARE WAR
AGAINST CHINA
GAR BEING STRONGLY URGED BY
HIS MINISTER'S TO TAKE
THE STEP.
FORCE CHINA TO SHOW HER HAND
RUSSIA TRYING TO DRIVE CHINA
INTO OVERT ACTS OF
WAR.
RUMORS OF LAND FIGHTING
DISPATCHES AGREE THAT RUS
SLAMS HAVE EVACUATED
KOREA.

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is being strongly urged by his minis
tiers to declare var against China.
Even the Russian ambassador to Pc
kin, who, prior TO the outbreak of the
present war. was friendly to the Chi
nese government, is ~beseeching the
Russian ruler 10 take up arms against
the Monaghan race.
He says thai as the Chinese are dis
affected toward Russia, their race
hatred should be brought clearly to
light, and made to take the form OF
open hostility, which would warrant
Russia In carrying on her policy in
the Far East much more effectively
than ever before. He AYERS that Rus
STA has everything to gain by
Open War With China,
and much TO lose by her involuntary
neutrality. That being SO, 1t is taken
for granted in political circles here,
as we'll as in military spheres, that M.
Lessar will compel China to show her
hand to some purpose, and that in the
very near future wal will be declared
between the two countries. Hence
the repeated protests made by the
Russian minister at Pekin against the
dispatch of Chinese troops beyond the
great wall and his threat that unless
they are speedily withdrawn China
will be treated as a belligerent.
AS a matter of fact, these protests
and threats are mere ~provocations. be-
cause the district of Lianse, which
lies outside the great wall and belongs
to Manchuria, was formally and ex-
pressly returned to China by Russia In
October. 1902, and belongs, therefore,
to neutral China, which should be &C
cordingly protected by Chinese troops.
Another Provocation Act
of the Russian ambassador Is the es-
Enlistment of a special Russian mis-
sion appointed for the purpose of
experimenting the neutrality of the
Chinese troops. That measure is re-
garded here as In endeavor to drive
China into overt acts of war The
plan, which In this eventuality will be
carried out by Russia Is described in
military spheres here as follows:
Pekin, Tien-tsin, Tung Chow and
Mongolia would be annexed to Russia
on the one hand, and the war would be
suddenly changed into great struggle
between the yellow and the white
races on the other, Russia becoming
the authorized champion of the latter.
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said to hold that unless by measures
OF this kind the oversee trade to China
be monopolized by Russia, the oppor-
tunity will slip by forever, because
once the Panama canal has been com
pleted the United States, as the great
Pacific power. will resolutely veto
every effort to seize the commercial
markets of China by means Of terri
torial ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Chinese upheavaI Feared.
London, April 12.-The correspond
emit of the Morning Post at Chefu. un-
der Saturdays date, wires:
II am informed by a hight Pekin Of
fetal that the feeling in Chinese Of
fetal circles resembles that Of 1900.
The dismissal of Prince Su and the
transference OF seals to Ma Tung in
dicates the increase of an a~nti-foreign
policy In the capital. The %pro-Japan-
ese party. including Prince Ching and
Chu Lu, is using Its best endeavors to
obtain the dismissal of officials with
friendly leanings toward Europeans.
There is grave possibility that China's
neutrality will be broken soon. despite
o1icial assurances to the contrary, by
o general upheaval of the people. The
Chinese are arriving from Niuchwang
In s~hiploads."
No Fight ut Port Arthur.
st. Petersburg. April 12.-The gen.
orally anticipated attack on Port Ar
thur did not occur Saturday night. al
though . telegram received from
Grand Duge Cyril reports that the en-
emy's ships were sighted on the hori-
xon. 1t Is presumed that the Japanese
were warned OF the extra precautions
taken to guard against q surprise.
There was no Easter merrymaking
at the front. ny special d~ispensation
the soldiers and sailors there were re.
lieved Of all religious observances on