Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-23
YANKEE SHIPS
 CAUSE GOSSIP
Visit of Admiral Badger to Russian Waters Brings
 Press Opinions i
ALLIANCE WITH THE BEAR2

ST. PETERSBURG, July 22.--COm- ing at an interval Of forty-five years after the redoubtable trip of the monitor Miantonomoh to Cronstadt. to return the friendly call of the Russian warships in New York in the critical times of 1863. Admiral Badgers squadron aroused old mem ories of nearly a century of Russo American history. which had be- come tradition in Russia, rudely shaken by events since 1903.
 Admiral Badgers reference To the MiantonOmoh at a banquet rendered bv the Imperial Yacht club was the keynote of the evening, as it fiattered the pride Russians take in having furthered the fortunes Of the American republic, to which they formerly habitually referred as Our Transatlantic friends"
 The lack of adequate advertisement of the fleets coming did not inter- fere with it's developing into a fair success. Before the week of the squadron's stay was over, the Elm perOr and his navy. with the peo- pie of Petersburg had succeeded in
 making the guests feel thoroughly at home.
 The emphasis laid upon the fact that the squadron's visit was only a service cruise may account for the scanty crop of impressions in the newspapers Most metropolitan dailles published articles of welcome, con- i lining thmselyes in generalities. and to reporting the various fetes of- fered to the visiting admiral. his officers and men. Some like the 1 Russkiva Vyedomosti of Moscow, which is the dean of the Russian liberal press, did not print a line 1 of editorial comment upon the visit. Others took the view that it's main object was a bid for Russian support against Japan, but opinions divided as to what Russia's reply to this bid should be.
 The Petersburg Gazette declared | that the international situation fur nished a firm ground for a Russo American rapprochement The east ! brings Russia and the United States together, just as Germany brought Russia and France. and lately Eng ! land, together" stated the Gazette. Russian and American interests 1 cannot be secured better than by unity in their Asiatic policies. 1 The general feeling that Russia should make good terms is voiced in an interview with Admiral Skrydion.
 who warns Russia against "selling ] cheap"
 The same idea is urged by the | Zemshtchina, of Petersburg. a. reac- tionary organ, which declined to | believe that the visit was destitute ! of political purpose. and says: | This visit is a reflection of ! popular tendency in America in favor of seeking. in the shape of an international political combination, a counterpoise against the Japanese danger, with which America can not think of coping unassisted. But the sweet smiles and amiabIeness of the Yankees ought not to turn the 1 heads of our diplomacy, and Russian support ought to be accorded oniy in exchange for real advantages to Russia, and not for the mere sake of fraternization between two na- tions which stand at the opposite poles of belief, national spirit and traditions"
 Finally, third view is that Amer lea is acting in bad faith. flirting with Russia. for the sake of ex- citing the jealOusly of Japan, and of driving a better bargain with her. This view was defended at length in an article in the Peter burgsh Vyedomosti, Prince Ukh- stOmskis newspaper. The writer fur ther develops the idea that Russians and Americans are widely divergent national and racial types, which have scarcely trait in common, but the color of skin.
 similar variety of opinion was manifested by the press, in it's treatment of the actual situation in the Far East. as affecting Russo American relations. The Novoe Vremya, Russias leading organ. sharply attacked American activity in Manchuria, during the squardrons stay, uRdeterred by a possible charge of discourtesy. It proceeded to ex- plain that the situation had nothing to gain by vagueness on important outstanding questions. In attacking and opposing the American invasion of Manchuria, Russia was combating the same trusts and combinations of capital which the American people had long been trying to control.
 On the other hand, the Retch, cd tied by Prof. Milyukoff, took the opposite view Of the matter, and argued that American proposals with. regard to Manchuria are not directed against Russia and that Russian dip lomacy had missed a notable oppor- tunity in not acquiescing in an American initiative in Manchuria which would fight Russia's battTes for her.
 Not His Habit.