The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-29
ABSENCE OF TWO WORDS
MAY CAUSE WAR BETWEEN
RUSSIANS AND JAPANESE
Cars Government Has Twice De
clined to Guarantee the In
tegrity of China.
STRICKEN FROM TREATY
Willing to Promise as to Korea,
but VIII Not Sanction
"China and"
WAR MAY BE DECLARED
Definite Reply Expected by Japan
from St. Petersburg ON
Monday Next.
STRICKEN FROM TREATY
WAR MAY BE DECLARED

LONDON, Jan. 29.-The Daily Graphic
claims TO be able to affirm that Russia S
draft of her reply has not yet been officially
presented TO Japan, but that it has been
communicated TO NJ. Kurino, the Japanese
minister at st. Petersburg, who has trans
mitted the contents to Toxic, whence it
will be conveyed to the friendly powers.
The Russian replay is courteous, the Daily
Graphic continues, but it refuses in un-
compromising terms to permit the re-
insertion in the draft Of the treaty of two
words guaranteeing the integrity and in
sisted in her last note
The clause proposed by Japan was that
Russia and Japan should mutually agree to
respect the integrity and independence of
China and Korea" Russia has strick-
en- out twice the words China and" and
it is understood that this Will close the ne
gotiatiOns.
1t is probable. the Daily Graphic goes on,
that when this note has been presented
Japan will notify Baron De Rosen, the Rus
sian minister at Toxic, that she has no al
tentative but TO take up arms in defense
of her interests. and that NJ Kurino will be
Instructed to demand his passports. In the
meantime the two Japanese cruisers which
left Colombo yesterday are proceeding to
Singapore. where, in the event of war be-
ing declared. their crews will be paid off
and the vessels laid UP.
There is nothing in the dispatches pub
lished this morning to show that the state
ment Of the Daily Graphic is anything more
than Intelligent anticipation The dis
patch 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. Peters
burg dispatches the possibility of further
negotiations, the latter paper saying that
the elimination of the crisis is not expected
before the beginning of March and report
ing a sudden rise on the st. Petersburg
Bourse.
A dispatch to the Standard from Toxic
says. according TO information from a sure
source, large bodies of Russian troops are
being moved 10 the Korean frontier from
Feng-Huang-Cheng and other points In the
interior of Manchuria.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Seoul
reports the arrival Of thousand Russian
troops al An-Tung yesterday.
A dispatch from Nagasaki to the Daily
Telegraph affirms that the Korean govern
ment has bluntly refused the renewed de-
mands of Italy for the gold-mining conces-
sion in Korea.
In dispatch from Toxic a correspondent
of the Times gives the financial programme
as follows: First. a domestic loan of 100,-
100000 yen (S5O,0O0.0OO); second. the govern
ment TO draft into the treasury the local
land taxes amounting to 25,OO0,Oo0 yen;
third, an increase of other taxes to yield
100000 yen; fourth, suspension of public
works and administrative retrenchmens
amounting to 100000 yen. The total OF
so, 900 yen year obtained by those three
last measures will be devoted to the secur-
ing of war loans
The Peking correspondent of the Times
cables that Tsong Chi, the Tartar general
of Mukden, has telegraphed the foreign
board at Peking that the Russians have
demanded that he supply 500 carts for i'm
mediate military service. The board replied
that owing to Chinese decision of neutral
ity Tseng Chi must decline to supply the
carts in question.