The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-14
EDITORIAL NOTES


The first spadefu1 of earth for. the
Panama-Pacffic international EXPOSE
ton at San Francisco was turned by
President Taft two years ago today.
The affair was made a gala. occasion,
with a military parade, addressed by
the President, the Governor of Cali
fornia and the Mayor of San Francis
co, and with the Pacific feet part1c1-
pating in the celebration. In the two
years that have passed since the Tor
NAL inauguration of the exposition
grounds. great progress has been made
in the work of construction. All OF
the principal buildings are in process
Of creation, and it is expected that
tbhey will be completed by OCTOBER
of next. year, months before the open
ing of the exposition in 1910. The ex-
position grounds. 625 acres in extent
form a natural anpitheatre overlook
ing San Francisco Bay and the Cold
en- Gate" and have over two miles or
water frontage. The exposition will
open on Feb TO- 1915, and continue to
Dec 4, a period of nine months and
thirteen days. The Panama-Pacific ex-
position will be the frst great worlds
fair to celebrate contemporaneous.
event.
Eight years ago today Nicholas H.
of Russia and Hutsuhito of Japan, at
treaty negotiated at Portsmouth, N.
H., and the war between the two ma
tions was formally ended.
Nippon, trfumphantly victorious on
land and sea, accepted terms of peace
dictated by the country she had con-
Quered, and, while she gained Korea,
gave up half of SaghaIien, relinquish-
ed her demand for indemnity, and, In
fact, magnaninously yielded every
point in dispute.
Much water has passed under the
mill since the signing Of the Ports
mouth treaty. Russia's diplomatic VIC
tory at Portsmouth, has been followed
by many others. The Gear is rapidly
becoming a1l-powerfuI in Mongolia,
while Japan's influence is being stead
lily developed in Manchuria- China.
has become a republic. A new ruler
has come to the throne of Japan-ene
who is declared to be frankly and
openly Russophile. 1t is generally
believed that Nicholas and Yoshihito
have become allies in a movement for
the dismember1nent of China-that St.
PetersD urg and Toxic have entered in
to an agreement whereby Mongolia is
to go to Russia and Manchuria to ia
pan.
"we are safe in prophesying." says
the Japan Advertiser. that the Chi
.nese republic can reach a modus VI
vendi with its powerful neighbors only
by reconciling itself to the loss OF
Mongolia, North and South Manchur-
ia
recent dispatch to the London
Daily Telegraph says: Russia, hav-
ing vain1y requested China to restore
order in the towns along the caravan
routes in Western Mongolia, has for
mally occupied Kobdo and Tchougout-
chalk with battalion of Cossacks.
Russia thus places this region on the
same footing as Urga." Russia's con-
Germ over the caravan routes is, Of
course, a mere excuse. But what of
1.-THE same footing as Urga"?
Urga is sacred city, in Northern
Mongolia, the seat of Gheergan, who
modestly styled himself the Living
Cod Just a year ago this month
the representatives of the Gar met
the priests Of the Living God of Mon
golia in the sacred city and signed
the treaty of Urga. BY this remark
able treaty, and a subsequent proto-7
col, all of Mongolia, with an area of
over 500, 600 square miles, becomes, for
all commercial purposes, part of RUS
STA. Although this assumption of Rus
sian authority over Mongolia is of vi
tai Importance to British and Amerf-
can trade, it has practically passed I'M
noticed at London and washington.
Russia has already commenced to
make good her occupancy by building
q network of branches of the Trans
Siberian railway into Northern Mon
golia Mongolia has been in rebellion
against China for some time, and the
punitive expeditions of Chinese troops
only made the Mongolians more ready
to accept Russian protection" Rus
STA now has a quarter of a million
soldiers along the Trans-Siberfan rail-
way, but it is hardly likely that China
viii attempt to stop the Russian in
vasion by force of arms.
While japan and Russia are now
friends and allies, animated by a COM
mon purpose-the loot of China--it is
predicted that when their present pur-
poses are accomplished the old enmity
and bitterness will be revived, and that
Russia, this time fully prepared, will
so-to- war to wipe-out the stain and