The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-07
Admiral Evans Declares That Czar Nicholas Plans to
 Whip Japan
AMERICA AND ENGLAND
 WILL HAVE NO TROUBLE
Fact That Russia Has FIoated a Biq Loan Is Evidence In the Mind of Admirat Evans That a
 Clash Will Come.

Chicago, February 6-(special) IA few days ago when the Russian government hoated loan of S6O,0o000o, which was | subscribed 30 times over, that was Rus sia's notice to Japan to get ready for war and stand ready for I am going to lick you.
 Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, seated in his apartments in the Auditorium An nex this evening, made this significant statement The old sea-fghter was talk ing guardedly. He had studied the situ- ation and the conditions. His mind had been made up on this point.
 And what is more, added the admiral. Japan herself recognizes and realizes the position in which she is placed
 A number of other statements of inter- l national import, viewed from the view point of Bob Evans, did the admiral make. Briefly summarized they are as follows:
 The United States will have no troubla with Japan
 | Neither will England When the next Russo-Japanese war does come, Germany, France and Austria will espouse the cause of the Russians. England will find herself allied with Japan by virtue of existing treaties. 1 What the result of it all will be no man can forsee
 In discussing purely national affairs with reference to the navy of the United States Admiral Evans said:
 We are approaching the day-I do not say 1t near at hand, but we are ap- l preaching it gradually-when the United States will have a fleet of warships SD l great, so powerful that no power on tho face of this earth will dare tackle us 1 Admiral Evans is on a lecture tour With Mrs. Evans and his lrnanager | valet and maid, he arrived this after- noon Monday he will go to Milwaukee. Then he will make short tour of ths west.
 Let us look at these things as I sea them" said MT. Evans. referring to Japan. Japan has not the slightest de- sire to fight with her bankers. England | and the United States are her bankers. l The Japanese are a clever people They realize the truth of what have just said. There is a limit to the resources of that country. Japan. l believe. can see the end of those resources even now The
 
 is spending money now. It is out of the question. Japan recognizes that a con fict with Russia is inevitable, and tic government is straining every nerve, ex- ] hausting every effort to put itself in, d state of preparedness But the resources , of Russia are practically illimtable Rus sia is anxious to avenge itself on Japan, and as l said before, the floating of that loan was Russia's plainly spoken notice to Japan of what the latter might expect.
 The day is coming when the richest nations of the earth only will wield the ! power. These nations are the United 1 States England, Russia and France. Ger many, despite the efforts of the German emperor, is dropping to the rear. Ger many has not the wealth. These four nations will rule the sea. Their supremacy will be unquestioned.
 That is one reason why I say that when the great conflict does come that Austria Germany. France and Italy will line up against the Japs. with England as the ally of the latter. And what is more, England knows it. The very haste with which she is rushing to put her navy in shape proves that she knows it." her of having been indiscreet in her relatlODS Wltn Laurent 20e Inen pealed to him for the love that a fath CT should show his daughter and asked him to believe her word.
 If Jesus Christ would come into this room and tell me that you had not done wrong. 1 would not believe hms said the father
 Shooting of Laurent.
 That was the way the matter stood when Smith went to the depot at Ar tesla on January 15, when he caught sight of Laurent and the tragedy re- suited.
 At the morning session of the court the cross examination of Smith him self was concluded While the attor- neys were questioning her father, Miss Smith caused a sensation by bursting into tears and openly crying out in the court room that her father was being outra ged.
 q call upon the people of Columbus to protect him.
 Then she fell across the attorneys table limp, while flood of tears con- vulsed her 1.-the frame.
 The letters which Smith wrote with drawing statements he made at the preliminary trial aspersing the charac- ter of Miss King were read during the cross examination of Smith. In this letter Smith asserted that the accusa- ton was made in an insane moment and Attorney McConnico insisted that in referring to his mental condition Smith had stated emphatically it was only momentary.
 Long Silence Broken.
 For the first time during her fathers gruelling cross-examination after he had told the story of her alleged shame, Miss Estelle Smith broke her tragic and deathllke silence with cry that to in ha courtroom. She rose and convulsed by sobs appealed to Mir McConnico, Spare niy father It is @ disgrace to the peo- pie of Columbus to have me outraged this way. What do you mean by that question Mir. McConnico? You ought to be ashamed to make me stand this.
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