JEWS IN TROUBLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 156, 6 July 1903, Page 3

JEWS IN TROUBLE.

PBKSIDINX ROOSBYEI/FS ACTION. FEB mm ASSOCIATION. Washington, July 3. President Roosevelt, in wh* is prao tically an official announce tnant, has determined to forward the Hebrew petition to the Czar. Tho eituatirn idelicate, but is is unofficially stated at Washington that Mr J. W. Riddle, Charge d'Affairfg at St. Petersburg, will dfacover if the petition will be received. If the answer is in the negative" the matter will end. Beotlred 5. 5.34 p.m. Washington, July 4. The inspired statement by President Boosevelt cocueming *he American petition to the Cz >r, as issued to the prats, is in the fatu-> of a r.iply t inspired statement made to 'ho pre» r by Count ()>■• ini, Russ'ao Ambassador at Washington. In th se comroani cations Count Oassini said Russia wpuld not tolerate interference over the Kishnieff affair, which was purely one o f internal concern. Commenting on thie, President Boosevelt remarks it is strange that Russia should chose this particular moment to make semi-official communicitiocs to the American peop'e. when by methods, certainly the reverse of friendly to the Unite 1 States, the sought to make China join in bre-kiog her plighted faith to all the Powers regarding tbe ''open door" in Manchuria, and endeavoured to bar American access to the trade of Manohuria.