The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-18
Both Are Determined to
 Rule in China
NEITHER WANTS WAR
Centenary of 1872 Campaign Against Napoleon's Army Being Cele- brated-Anxiety Over Mutin-
 ous Troops in Turkestan

St. Petersburg, August lT.-tSpeciaD So far from having reached definite understanding as to.the future of both empires in the regulation of the affairs of China-as is gravely set forth by various st Petersburg and Tokyo cor | respondents-Japa an1 Russia are watching each others movements on the Oriental mainland with the alert ness of the panther and catlike cunning Neither nation is anxious to pick quarrel but both are equally deter mined to rule the roost in China. Rus sia's latest move in the game of politl- cal draw poker is the sounding of M i lxokofftseff on mission to Picking and Tokyo to reason with President Yuan Shi-Kai and to bring the Japa- cessity of deference to Muscovite views in any arrangement regarding internal or external affairs which the Picking cabinet may undertake to make.
 Russia is accused of conspiring to oust Yuan's English advisor. pr. Nor rison, a former British newspaper cor respondent who is now acting in an of | ficial capacity at very substantial | salary. Dr. Morrison is not in favor at St. Petersburg, owing to the tenor of his dispatches during the Russo-Japa- nese war. Russia fears that she will make little headway in her plans to | China so long as Morrison remains al the elbow of the Chinese president. Openly, however, she is not showing her disfaVor. out of courtesy to Great ! Britain, much needed friend at the l Inn. Fai
 Russia Is determined to recover in some manner or form an iee-free out 1 let on the Oriental seaboard. and Jap | an is just as determined to prevent her doing so. Both nations are held back by unpreparedn for war; Japan
 because her financial resources are strained to the limit; Russia. through | the Reorganization and disanection | of her army and the loss of her navy. And they are both equally anxious to
 prevent any foreign loan In which
 American bankers will gain prestige and influence and which might afford the state department at Washington q
 reason for Intervening in the future squabbles which are anticipated by the other nations intriguing in China.
 The centenary of the campaign of 1912 Is now being celebrated through out Russia. Places of honor are being given to the living veterans of kutu- zov's army which hung on the Hanks of Napoleon's legion from Malo-Jaros- | lavetz until the spectres of what had
 been the mighty grand army" trudged
 their weary way across the frozen Ber- ezina. Twenty-Five of these old sold
 iers of a century ago still live to cheer for Holy Russia and the White Father" he otlest is 12s: the young
 est IF. There are some Russian re-
 cords of longevlty-the fruits of d hard climate and rugged plain living.
 The veterans were discovered after Russia was searched from the Arctic 1 Circle to the foot Of the mountains at the Black Sea for survivors of the war which marked the beginning of the end of the Master of Europe. to insult whose vaultng ambition Moscow was put to the torch and whole provinces laid barren. The greatest fervor pre- vafls, and for once party btternesses are submerged in the honoring of the men of 1912.
 1 The causes leading up to the mutiny I of Sappers in Tur<estan have been kept secret As this service is recruit ed from skilled artisans 1t Is surmlsed that the government Is due to a revo- lutionary agency, but possibly it ori- ginated from purely local causes. Cases have been known where the men have been dissatisfied with being employed
 for private purposes without proper | remuneration.
 The insubordination of the troops fin Turkestan, although confined to one lparticular branch. causes all the more anxiety in view of the recent reports of classification among the sailors of the Black Sea