The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-03-31
CHINESE INVADE
SIBERIA IN
FORCE
Such Is News Heard at
Russian Capital
Yesterday.
CROSS THE AmUR
Attack Important Town
on Railroad and
Fight Well.
CROSS THE AMUR

ST. PETERSBURG, March s0.--It is
reported here that Chinese troops have
crossed the Siberian border in force,
and attacked the city of Blagovesh-
chensk, the capital Of the Province OF
Amur. They are said to have sur
rounded tho citadel and attempted TO
take 1T by storm, being driven back on
the first assault.
Russia Was Satisfied.
PERING, China, March 29.--Russia
has notified China that she is satisfied
with the latter s final reply to the Rus
sian ultimatum regarding the observ-
ance of consular and commercial priv
ileges in Mongolia and lii.
Heard of Preparations.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 1s.-The
Novoe vremya prints despatch from
Mukden which states that one hundred
and ten tons of gunpowder, forty-two
boxes of cavalry rifles and seventy
boxes of infantry rifles, destined for
Chinese garrisons in Northern Man
ehuria, have reached Mukden from Pc
king. Forty-one van loads of rifles and
ammunition, the despatch adds, have
been sent from Kwangehengtze to
Kirin
Political circles take great interest
in Japan IS attitude toward the Russo
Chinese crisis. The eventuality of ac-
tion similar to that now contemplated
by Russia was clearly foreseen in the
Russo-Japanese compaets of 1907 and
1910. The recent speech at Toxic of
II. Ijuin, Japanese minister to China,
in support of the integrity Of China is
commented upon in both capitals as q
possible warning to Russia that Japan
is jealous lest Russia gain too great
advantages as an outcome of the clash
with China.
However the remarks of the japanese
minister are somewhat discounted by
the knowledge that he is inimical to
Russia and was appointed TO the Picking
mission to strengthen Chino-Japanese
friendship.
kilograms from Hardin state that tho
Russian press in the far East has for
weeks been talking of Japanese prepa-
rations, for war and asserting that their
railways and roads are being adapted
to the transportation of troops. The
staff of the Chinese railway and the
employees generally have been replaced
by japanese and armed soldiers.
Huge barracks, it is asserted, are
under construction at the principal sta
tions, and the Japanese commissariat is
gathering reports of the quantity Of
Igrain held in private stores in Kwan-
tung Province.
simultaneously the Chinese vieeroy
of Manchuria addressed secret prof.
ect to the throne regarding Manchuria,
and proposing a gradual limitation Of
the rights of foreigners, diminution
Of garrisons, the exclusion Of gunboats
from the Sungari and Yalu rivers and
an increase of the Chinese garrison to
100000 men, at an estimated annual
cost of $10,000,000.
An evening paper confirms the report
that Mons. Kokovsoff opposed the re-
cent policy Of the foreign office toward
China and succeeded in deferring the
military demonstration which Mons. Sa-
zonoff had intended should accompany
the first ultimatum.
Blagoveshchensk is a town OF i'm
Iportance, on the TranssibeFian rail-
road, just over the border from Man
churia. It is situated due north Of
Hardin, some three hundred miles.
Stationed there is fair sized garrison
of Russian troops. The city is made
J lup principally of Chinese