Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-02-08
WAR IN FAR EAST
HAS JUST STARTED
Declares Russian Ambassador,
Count Cassini.
MUsT FIaAT uNTIL MOTORIOvs

says Russia Was Forced Into the
Present confet-Dlsordsrs at Home
Put Down with Only Needed
Severity.
Washington, Feb THE war in
Asia is not about to end; 1t has really
Just begun" said Count Cassini, Rus
SIAN Ambassador to the United States.
"a response to request for state
ment of his views regarding the Rus
SIAN situation. "That struggle can
only end when Russia is victorious.
NY country did not seek this conflict,
but Ms forced into it by treacher.
ois attack upon her unprepared forces
sc far distant ponit Having en-
eased in a defensive war, Russia will
continue to fight until a peace con.
sistent with her honor and her l:iti'
mate interests is possible. The ulti'
mste triumph of Russian arms is, to
ms mind, an ISSUED outcome OF this
Uuhappy war"
IN spite of the abuse to which Rus.
STA IS subjected in America, the ven.
cradle dean OF the diplomatic corps
81 Washington Is confident that public
sentiment In this country Will change
Defore long
3 have strong faith in the common
stnse and just instincts OF the Ameri'
can people" he said Il do not be.
ileye chat they can fail to detect the
workings Of a cunning aad malicious
4fopaganda In the elaborate and per
sslent attempts 10 exaggerate, twist
ADD pervert events in Russia.
It IS just as absurd to picture the
clakh of rioters in ST. Petersburg with
Toe police and troops as a massacre or
levoluton as 20 treat the fall Of Port
Afthur as the virtual end of the war
ga which Russia Is beginning to be in
& position 70 deal effectively with her
enemy In the field.
What the Russian government did
ia St. Petersburg and what Il has
dong elsewhere Is just what the United
etates or any other civilized and re-
nonsible state would do under the
me circumstances. II preserved
public order by force after fair and
l6s warning that force would be used.
fact that innocent persons lost
ttsir lives In no way alters the sltua.
titn. Nor is the government respon.
eible for the outrageous eXagerations
ent out Of Russia by newspaper cor
pOndents.
The truth is that the organized
trkingmen Of ST. Petersburg. who
lad certain industrial grievances,
Re foully deceived and misled by
fek Nihillsts and other reyolutionaries
10 seek the destruction Of an cstab
fNhed government These advocates
81 giolence are not numerous, but they
afe active and seek every opportunity
tt slrlke At persons ia authority They
chote q moment when Russia was en-
eassd In a difficult wardihicult be.
couse OF great distances-to misiead
lbausauds OF honest workiusmtH. ioy
81 Russlans into movement hy
which they hoped to produce anarchy
rhe disturbance 90 Warsaw and
elseNhere 10 Poland are cue 20 the
lessness and eEcitshl.ty OF The P0
Ass people. which shows itself 90 tur
ta1oe That vas true % Poland
before IT was Russian territory.
Ie natural disposition Of the Poles
f.ns played upon d. revolutionary
hts
ID is absolutely false 90 say thai
workinrmc1 90 Russia have no
ns o. presenting a petition to ths
ror. BuL al in ail other cirit
countries. there Ia an orderly pro
b. 30 DE- followed The men El1
he workugmca Of 81 Pe,enhg.s
rio.lug demanded thai TIE empe 4
should come 90 certain EDo' a1t
thea aud accompanied their DE-
by public threats
1ppo body ol strikers Do
hirwo1 sh0l1 ir terms % lntn
summoned presitent Roosevelt
- 10 a pabuc fqlara aut parsJ
mob f9r ans pcrpose Wat
RI h.s ausarre 3upPose theJ
threaten f1 Hau a reFolL9a.