Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-26
JAPANESE THINK RIOTS I'M RUS,
STA WILL BRING
STOP.
CHINA MAKES ANS WEIR
Sends Reply to RussIa's Allegations
Regarding Neutrality Laws, Denying
Every charse Unconflrmed Report
Of Fight.
Toxic, Jan. 25.-The navy de-
partment announces the formation
of a special service squadron.

"a - SPSSAeA oSA WIG 0AuCQlOu.
Paris. Jan. Is. - The interna-
tionals commission to inquire into
the North Sea incident began hear
Ing witnesses today.
Seychelles Islands, Indian Ocean.
Jan. 25.-The French gunboat
Capricorne reports that tho Rus
* Sian second Pacific ssqua dron was
at Passandava bay. on the north
west coast of Madagascar on jan
uary 90. It is thought the squad
ron intended to go to the east
coast of Madagascar owing to the
hurricane season.
Toxic, Jan. 25.-The Japanese are
keenly watching the developments at
st. Petersburg. The newspapers pub
fishing extras with accounts Of the
riots are eagerly read, The people
were shocked at the death roll, and
there Is widespread feeling that the
bureaucracy will be powerless to stem
the tide of reform and that the down
fall of the bureaucratic system must
end the war. A member Of foreign
legation said:
"The war is over unless the Russian
people are crushed with an iron heel.
I 1t has brought about a crisis. The
Japanese army is now fighting the bat
tie of the Russian people"
Russian cavalrymen Routed.
The Japanese headquarters at Sien.
chang, Manchuria, reports that jap.
anese force dislodged one company OF
Russian cavalry northwest OF Weist.
zuku on Monday, occupying the posi-
tion, and captured some horses and
i,arms.
Another Japanese detaah .aent rout
ed force Of Russians in the Neigh
4 borhood Of Chancheng, infiicting over
twenty casualties. The Japanese cap
tured Ave officers and men with their
horses and arms.
Report Of Fight.
Paris, Jan. 25. The Agence Russo
has a dispatch from st. Petersburg
saying 1t is rumored in naval circles
that fight has taken place in the
Indian ocean between the Russian
Baltic fleet and the Japanese fleet
According to the rumor, the Japanese
lost battleship and two cruisers. The
Agence Russo is subsidized for Rus
sian purposes and is most unreliable
China Answers Charges.
Washington, Jan. 25.-Chtna's an.
swer to the American governments
communication calling attention to the
Russian charges that the Chinese were
violating neutrality, was delivered to
Secretary Hay at his residence yester
day by Sir Chentung Liang Cheng,
the Chinese minister. 1t will later be
| sent to the President.
Until the Chinese answer has been
read by the President its text is with
held. but the Associated Press has
obtained an approved synopsis Of the
contents of the note, as follows:
Regarding the charge that the Chi.
nese bandits were enlisted in the Jap.
anese army, the Chinese government
calls attention to the fact that they
were enlisted first by the Russians as
frontier guards and fought against the
Japanese army If it is true, as al
legged, that they are enlisted In the
Japanese army, that is matter for
the belligerents. In the opinion of the
Chinese government the subjects OF
a neutral power have the right as pri
vate citizens to enlist In a foreign
army. This is an established fact in
the law of nations, for which China
cannot be held responsible. When.
ever these bandits entered the Chi
nese neutral zone every effort was
made for their arrest and punishment
and in most cases they have been ar
rested.
"We find no japanese officers in our
northern army at all. We do find in
the government school at Pao Ting Pu
several Japanese translators. All OF
them, however, mad been engaged be
fore the war, and after hostilities
broke out they were required to give
their word of honor to have nothing to
do with the conflict. These are on the
same footing as Russians and other
foreigners. in educational institutions
!, throughout the empire and in our mari
4 . u. p -4 !