The Far East.

Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1904, Page 2

The Far East.

FRENCH NEWSPAPERS INDIFFERENT. . The French newspapers -.itl;-'

Russian-Japanese quarrel w it!:>'indifference.

Colonel Hay, United States ->i America Secretary of State, in replying to Count Cassini, the Russian Minister in the United States, stated that the Cbinese-American relations in Manchuria would be neither vised nor vetoed by Russia. ARREST OF JAPANESE SPIES.

Many Japanese spies have been arrested in Manchuria, as it was feared they would destroy the Siberian railway. J. McLeavy Brown, Commissioner of Customs in Korea, has locked up the Korean field guns in the Customhouse on the pretence that they require repairs. The Russian squadron has abandoned the chase of the Japanese warships Nisshin and Kasuga owing to the breakdown of destroyers. Four Russians were shipped on board the Nisshin at Genoa as Italians, but were discovered and put ashore. The Times’ Tokio correspondent says opinion is altogether sceptical about the rumours of Russian concessions. RUSSIA NOT READY TO FIGHT. The Czar invited Kurino, the Japanese Minister, to his Koselo Palace to confer with him, Reuter’s Berlin correspondent says a confident view is expressed in diplomatic circles that Russia is not ready or willing to fight, and will patch up an arrangement, if able, to represent her retreat as a diplomatic compromise. JAPAN ORDERING FODDER. The N.S.W. Government has received a cable from its commercial agent in the East, asking for quotations c.i f., Japan, for two thousand tons of pressed oaten new hay and two thousand bags each of feed oats and maize.