The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-29
RUSSIA'S RELY TO JAPAN
WOODWORKING TERMS AS TO
 INTEGRITY OF CHINA.

Belief That This VIII Close the NegotI- attons-Declaration of War Seems Very Likeiy-Instructions Regarding the New Japanese crnisers-wiil be Latd Up at Singapore.
 London, Jan. 2S.-The Daily Graphic claims to be able to affiarm that Rus sia's draft of he rreply has not yet been officially presented to Japan. but that it has been communicated to M. Kurino, the Japanese minister at St. Petersburg, who has transmitted the contents to Tolxio. whence it will be conveyed to the friendly powers.
 The Russian reply is courteous, the Daily Graphic continues, but it refuses, in uncompromising terms, to permit the reinsertion in the draft of the treaty of the two words guaranteeing tue integ rlty and independence of China, upon which Japan insisted in her last note. The clause proposed by Japan was that Russia and Japan should mutual ly agree to respect the Integrity and independence of China and Corea." :" Russia has now stricken out twice the words China and" and it is under stood that this will close the negotia- tions.
 It is probable, the Daily Graphic goes on, that when this note has been pre- sented Japan will notify Baron de Rosen, the Russia minister at Tokio. that she has no alternative but to take up arms in defense of her interests, and that M. Kurino will be instructed to demand his passports In the mean while instructions have been sent to the two Japanese cruisers now at Co., lombo to proceed to Singapore, where, in the event of war being declared. their crews will be paid off and the vessels laid up.
 London, Jan. 2S.-There is nothing in the dispatches published this morning to show. that the statement of the Daily Graphic is anything more than "intelli- gent anticipation.
 The dispatch 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. Petersburg dis patches the possibility of further nego- tiations, the latter paper saying that the continuation of the crisis is not ex- pected before the beginning of March, and reportinf a sudden rise on the St Petersburg bourse.
 A dispatch to the Standard from To kio says that, according to information from a sure source, large bodies oi Russian troops are being moved to the Corean frontier from Feng Huane Chang and other points in the interior of Manchuria.
 A dispatch from Nagasaki to the Daily Telegraph affirms that the Co rean government has bluntly refused the renewed demands of Italy for gold  mining concession in Corea.
 London, Jan 29.-In a dispatch ron Tokio a correspondent of the Time! gives the financial programme of th' government as follows:
 First domestic loan of 100,000,00 yen (s50.O000oO); second, the govern ment will draft into the treasury. th' local land taxes amounting to 25,000,00 yen (s12,5OoOOO); third, 1t will increas other taxes to yield 5,0OOOoO (s7, 300 ,ooO) and fourth 40,OO0 900 yen ($20, ,OO0,000) vii be obtained by the suspension of pub lie works and administrative retrench ments. The total of S0,000000 yen ($40, 00.O00) a year obtained by these thre last measures will be devoted to the SC curing of war loans.
 The Pekin correspondent of the Time cables that Tseng Chi, the Tartar gen eral of Mukden, has telegraphed tn foreign board at Pekin that the Rus sians have demanded that he suppl 5O0.000 cars for immediate military ser vice. The board replied that owing t Chinas decision of neutrality Tseng Ch must refuse to supply the carts.
 Paris, Jan. 29.-The Port Arthur cor respondent Of the Paris edition of tn New York Herald announces the de parture Of the Ninth, Tenth and Elev enth Siberian rifles for the Yalu river
 The correspondent says that Vice-Ad rniral Alexieff is suffering from inf1u enza, but that he confers daily with hi military chiefs
 Port Arthur, Jan. 29.A telegram re ported to have been sent by the Rus sian military attache at Tolxio was re ceived here yesterday. It gave inform ation of the mobilization of the Japan ese army and had the effect of renew ed preparations for the dispatch of th troops already ordered to the north, bl who have been detained on account ( the peaceful aspect of affairs,
 The authorities have invited the Ru: sian women of Port Arthur to join tt Red Cross.
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