The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
Washington Herald


fuI Regeneration which is fast forging
TO the front in Russia political affairs,
has issued an official statement confirm
ing the newspaper reports that NJ. Drui-
Try Shipof. Prof. Lopatin. Prince Tru-
betskoy. who formerly belonged to the
Constitutional Democratic Party. and
number of Moscow capitalists, who
have hitherto ranked themselves as Oc-I
TOURISTS, have joined the Party of
Peaceful Regeneration"
Count Heyden is preparing 10 publish
the manifesto of the party, which de-
mands parliamentary cabinet. The
whole programme. it appears, closely
resembles that of the Constitutional
Democrats. with the difference that the
'Regenerators' will emphatically de
clare their strictly legal tactics The
party expects 10 return a respectable
minority at the forthcoming Duma cleo
tons.
It has become manifest, however, that
the Volga-side provinces do not appear
to he sharing the conservative trend
which has been reported from the cen
tral and western provinces The nobility
Of EostrOma propose 10 offer member
ship of their assembly TO all mobiles such
as Prince Dolgorukoff and NJ Murom-
steff, who has been expelled from vaTi-
Gus other provincial assemblies for sign
ing the Viborg manifesto. Reports for
Warded TO the police department show
that the 'Volga peasantry arc saturated
with radicalism. Agitators from outside
districts are no longer needed; the VII
laeors themselves have organized
E.sse-to-house propaganda. which ef-
frt,aaIly battles the efforts Of the police
al suppression.
Scores OF robberies are reported daily
from all parts of the empire. A party
Of highwaymen took $4,000 from an
agent Of Princess Dolgoruky, near Nor
shanSk station, on the railway from
Tula to Samara. The passengers left
the train. pursued the robbers, and re-
covered the booty. other robbers tried
% stop a train near Atkarsk fifty
miles from Saratoff by firing on the
train. In this they were unsuccessful.
hut they removed the metals with q view
OF derailing the next that should pass.
China Would Stop Opium Habit.
According 10 dispatches from Pekin.
many indications are apparent Of the de
sire Of the Chinese government TO check
the use of opium, and although there is
no fresh development In the matter. the
government is still considering the franz
ing If the regulations TO control the
traffic in the drug. The use of opium has
been strictly prohibited in the new Chi
uest army and in schools. Several Off
n
been cashiered for smoking opium. and it
is understood that the higher officials in
all the Yamens have been ordered to
break themselves of the habit within six
months. The Chinese authorities fully
acknowledge the stupendous nature Of
their task, and admit the difficulties IN
the way Of checking the growth of native
opium, which, according to expert esti-
mate, is from eight 10 ten times as great
as that imported from foreign countries.
says Japan Wants Java.
The German newspapers are stil COM
mentng upon the recent sensation sprung
by the German Orient Correspondence.
Berlin publication, 20 the effect that
the Japanese dock yards are in a state OF
feverish activity, as the government Of
the Mikado is preparing for an attack on
the island of Java, with the object of
seizing the Asiatic colonies of the Neither
lands. This report originated from
Roman source, and while Japan has since
issued an official denial papers which
claim 70 have investigated the matter
before expressing an opinion assert that
Java is overrUn by japanese agents, who
are endeavoring to enlist the sympathy Of
the people in Batavia and other places
with Japan.
The discovery is also alleged that the
Dutch Indian government is quietly and
UnOstentltiOusiy increasing its arma-
ments, and in consultation with the colo
NAL minister at The Hague, has entered
upon the execution of a great scheme Of
defense of the Dutch Indian possessions
IN general and of Java in particular
The position of Japan evidently resembles
that Of the United States toward Cuba.
as there is enduring unrest and trouble
among the natives in the Dutch posses
sions, and &c lies open to her TO create
disturbances at the fitting moment In va
rious parts Of the archipelago by which
the Dutch rule may be called into cues
ton. The only means Of safety for the
Netherlands would be a union with the
United States and Germany, and to make
this effectual the creation Of a perfectly
Independent base for the fleet in the
Straits OF Nalacea.
Servian Minister Attacked,
The controversy raised in Vienna by the
recent publication in London of an article
on the reality of Pan-Germanism is con-
tinued by a violent attack in the Wiener
AIlgemeine Zeitung on the Servlan min
lister DR.. Vulitch
The Ailgemeine Zeitung declares Or
Nuitch's statement TO be totally untrue
and repeats It's previous announcement
concerning DR. Vutch's negotiations with
the German Ambassador. German Journal
lists who inquired whether this announce
ment is true were told at the German
embassy that there was no reason tC
deny its authenticity The Allgemeint
Zeitung accuses DR.. Witch of having con-
stantly intrigued against Austria-Hun-
gary and Of having ignored the hints re-
peatedly given him by influential person
ages that his recall would be acceptable
To the Acknowledgements government.
This article together with the circum.
stances that the German Ambassador has
not coVroborated DR. Vuitch's denial OF
the previous accusation in the Allgemeint
Zeiturg, strengthens the impression that
Germany IS now working against Servia
in connection with the artillery dispute
An authoritative denial is given in
Vienna TO the newspaper statement that
the Hungarian government in its negotia.
lions with Austria proposed the imposi-
ton of duties upon certain articles
which duties should come into force after
1917. NJ Kossuth. the Hungarian minister
os commerce, declared before the finance
committee that, although he was con
WINGED of the utility OF customs separa.
ton to both countries and of its coming
into force in 1917, IL would be premature
10 fix it by law for that period at tn,