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ST. PETERSBURG MONEY MARKET WAVERING. NAVAL ANT) MILITARY DEMONSTRATIONS. (Received Feb. 4, 10.52 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. There is a marked depression on tho St. Petersburg Bourse, and prices of Internal Rentes and other Russian funds are falling. The censorship stops Far Eastern news. Several battleships at Port Arthur, m pursuance of St.. Petersburg irtire tifirea battlfctehip;> and six cruisers simultaneously with a naval and military observation movement l»ing authorised. Nine thousarti troops have gone to Liaoyang, Others replacing them at Port Arthur. A cruiser from Ohemulpho has brought to Port Afthur complete Japanese charts of the Korean coast. A total of seventy thousand tons of Kaiping coal has been ordered for IV)rt Arthur. I The Russian delay and the idea that Japan is being treated with contumely have carried the tension ol Japanese feelings to a climax. OVERCOMING THE CZAR'S PEACE RESOLUTION. MEANS FOR PRESERVING INTERNAL ORDER. (Received Feb. 5, 1 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. The Times' St. Petersburg correspondent says the miKtary party professes the belief that the argument emphasizing, as their trump card, Russia's loss of prestige if she backed down before Japan, will overcome the Czar's irresolution. The Council of the Empire has carefully discussed measured to <>e taken for the preservation of internal order m the event of war. The situation in the Caucasus is regarded as being especially dangerous. The South African Veterans in the Manawatu district have formed an association, and last night celebrated their first anniversary at l'alnierston with a dinner which was largely attended by soldiers and townspeople/ Amongst the guests was the Premier, who, in the course of a patriotic speech, said a struggle was imminent in the Far East, and expressed the opinion that the sympathy of the people of the colony was with the Japanese. lie also emphasised the importance to Australasia of preventing the Russians getting ths seaboard of Manchuria, from which she couid menace the Pacific.
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United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1904, Page 3
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330The Latest. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1904, Page 3
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