RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 56, 10 March 1904, Page 3

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Progress of Events. RUSSIAN STUDENTS' ATTITUDE, ST. PETERSBURG, March 8. Hy 21 j to 40 the students of the Institute of Mining Engineers in St. Petersburg adopted a resolution condemning the Government embarking on the war, which they declared was originated by a hunuiul oi exploiters, und illustrates the spirit oi reckless aiiventure which lias characterised the Government in the i'ar East. RECOGNITION OF CONSULS. LONIH.'N, March 8. China liua gran ted, exeipia tins to Mr E. I), Cheshire, rm-iuiv appointed Americai L'onsul-Geueral in Manchuria, and to Mr W. Davidson, appointed Consul at Antung. Colonel llay (U.S. Secretary of State) has instructed them to await at Shanghai developments in Manchuria. PARISIAN SYMPATHIES. I'ARIS, March S. The Municipality of Paris voted sympathy with the St. l'etersburg Municipality, expressing the hope ttiat Russia would prove victorious. It also voted twenty thousand francs for Russian and Japanese wounded. DISPOSING OE JAPANESE Nl NCOMI3ATANTS. LONDON, March 8. Owing to the impossibility of sending Japanese residents nl Port Arthur and Vladivostok home by steamer, the Viceroy (Prince Alexieff) has directed their removal to the interior of Siberia.

VARIOUS ITEMS. LONDON, March 8. The Japanese squadron has appeared about Vladivostok. The Russians are advancing fiom the vicinity of l'ossiet Bay towards Song-chin. < M, Kaneka, vice-president of the Bank of Japan, hus gone to America respecting the loan. Admiral Makarofl (the new Ci-in-mander-in-Chief of the Russian lar East arrived at Dalny. Prince Louis Bonaparte, who holds a commission in the Russ an army, will proceed to the Far liust in command of a brigade of Cossacks. After the Russians evacuated it, the Japanese occupied Haiyutai, one of the Elliot Islands, hut found only stores, coal and signalling flags. STOPPING *N" OCEAN LINER. FREIIANTLE, March 9. 'The Mongolia has arrived from (London. Her captain the f^llo.Miig account of the chhse of the Mongolia by a Russian \vurt*lnp on Feb. 20tli At noon, about 120 miles north of Aden, we sighted a Russian battleship and lour UestroyerL One destroyer steamed towards us, going about seventeen knots. The destroyer was not ai le to gain on us, and then ran up a signal to stop instantly. On Hie advice of Admiral sSir vJeratd did so. The destroyer came I- within thirty yards, scrutinised us, hoisted " Beg to be excused, ' ami steamed back to her consorts. There was a great deal of excitement on board. On the afternoon before reaching Colombo we passed a Russian cruiser, but she did not signal us. Many of the were highly indign.knt at the action .of the Russians.

Later News. "HUJ33J-V3 .VLADIVOSTOK SQUADBON, ITS WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN. (Received March 9, 9.55 p.m.) LONDON, March i>. The whereabouts of the Russian '.squadron is a mystery, Some Reports represent it as trying to intercept transports, while others de■clare that it is co-operuting in laiid4Dg troops at Tumen, which p»uce •the Russians are fortifying. Advices received at Moscow state ithat it is feared the squadron s return to .Vladivostok is imperilled. THtl ELUSIVE JAPANESE FI^EET JFAMILIE3 LEAVING VLADIVOSTOK. FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS FOR THE RUSSIAN AKiIY.

LONDON, Match 9. Prince Alexieff reports that the Japanese squadron, which was nt .Vladivostok went to 1 ossiet Unj, and thence south. " A. great exodus of families of residents of .Vladivostok is taking P Th* c Berlin newspaper Tokalauzeiger states that KussiM ac '; t, l' t joreign volunteers, iilly Koers li.«\l arrived at Samara, tm the \ ol«a, and intend joining the Russians at ' the front. Several Swiss ujncurs ' fire also joining. PREPARATIONS FOR A STRI'UGLE.

.ANOTHER TUGELA. CUeteivcd March 9, 11.li p.m.) LONDON. March ». T r«c Russians lmve entrenched the . ... ' -vouiid Antnng. The position. in Son tli \fri.-a, SsH:,; °Tlie Prussians inlei,''' a defensive attitude on _ . Japanese troops ale Um. » and day at Gen-san. and piK to Ping-yang. ■JAPANESE ENVOY TO KOREAN EMPEROIt. (Received March 9, 11.2f> p.m.) LONDON, Marcli J l . Miirquis Ito, President, of tile "' 1 i Un«se Privy Council, has been Kent ;as -* special Ambassador, !>e.vi tlhe .Mikado's authotfrnph letter to tolie Emperor of Jvorea. Count Mjgashikuze, vice-president und secretory of the Privy Council, is i.< nfflpanying him. „ W»EN TO » K AHANIM»SF.D. M k _ LONDON, March 9. .. .' v, jjowived from Mukden Advl< « , fill . tlU . general relused f ate V. 1 t.aw from the town, and k?- « ftexjiaff fS thereupon üband prince A Khur „ in . omng Muk " ' - 7.1.yW30NS ILL-PRO-THE YA-LU FJWXHOX, March 9. mi t> • ificwces on the The Russian . nn(] ,t is a n r „ e t " ißke ° long stay there. RUSSIAN W. A" CHINESE RXSI 1 ONI 'ION, March 9rit l^r,^ pro^ n,° elt that Tance •"«*» •»< intervene if China tiet*-tru* *

LAND OF THE MORNING CALM,. SOME FACTS AISOUT KOREA, One of the centres of interest in the Far East is Korea, that "Land of the Morning Calm," us its native name. Chlao ilsien translates itself, whose 600-mile long peninsula slret- : dies between Manchuria and .Japan, i To that country both Russia and ( Japan are now sending troops. i There are important llritisli and ; American mining concessions extend- - ing over some hundreds of miles of territory, and any incursion of troops in this part of the country might involve trouble with these Powers. The Secretary of the Korean Legation in London, Mi- Yi Hang lining, stated early in January, in the course oi an interview "We do not fear for oursehes. ami whatever happens we shall remain neutral. "If it were necessary, we could put 00.000 men on the Held. for when conscription was established in Korea two years ago the movement met with a ready response. "With a little more time for organisation, we could perhaps arm 100,000 men, and though our Held artillery is not very formidable, all our ritles are modern weapons, and our men are good lighting material. "Hut there is no fear of Korea being involved in conllict. Our sympathies are certainly with Japan, because Japan is lighting for the 'open door,' but we want Russian trade us well as Japanese trade, and, except so far as the case of wounded troops landed on our shores, we should assist neitja*r one side nor the other. "We desire, of course, to preserve the integrity of Korea. As an independent country we are only nine years old, and our progress during those nine years has been steady, even if it has not been very marked! "War would be for us one of the worst things that could happen. It would cripple our trade in the east of the country, and gravely uinder our progress generally." Li Iliung, the Emperor, it appears, is no figurehead ruler of the Land of the Morning Calm." He governs through a council of Minisv' rS '~ o ' whom the Prime Minister, 11 Hung Miung, is a shrewd, farsceing man of an uncommon type among Orientals-hut he watches his country's interests with Western keenness. The Government Departments include a Home Office, Foreign. Office Treasury, War Offlce, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice, and Ministry of Trade and Agriculture • while local government is carried on by incans of village councils, sowposed of a head man and a representative of each family, and bv communes, at the head of which is a mayor, with a clerk, bailiff, ami usher, and popularly elected representatives. All these departments of government are now in full sw ing, and since the sweeping awa.v of the odious decree abolishing the "top-knot" and all the other internal dissensions which clustered around 1 «•).-> when assassination, beginning with that of the Empress, was the order of the day, a period of quiet has descended upon the Hermit Nation. A STORY FROM THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL. A telegram from St. Petersburg to the New York Herald alleged that an agreement has been entered into between Germany and Denmark whereby, in the oven I of Kngland being drawn into the war with Japan against Russia, Germany should immediately make a friendly occupation ol' Copenhagen with a powerful force there, effectively closing the ilaitic and preventing the Russians sgoing out or the Knglisli coming in. What arrangement Germany made with Denmark, continued the despatch, is easily imagined upon the basis of Schleswig-Holstein, and also a Cumberland family arrangement, while everyone who is at all behind Kaiser Wilhelm'.s ambitions knows the terrible avidity with which, in view of Germany's meagre sealine and harbour accommodation, he views already the Germanised Russian harbours of Riga and Reval. One or other, or both, might probably be ceiled by or demanded from exhatjpled Russia in return lor vitally useful protection at a critical period. , In the inevitable partition of China which must take place in case of war, Germany, according to (his story from the Russian capital, assigns herself the IVkin provinces. The Germans have recently advised thy building of another fort to protect Copenhagen, and this to be done miojr their supervision,

The Town llnnd will play out in front of the Government Buildings to-morrow evening. The savings that you mijke in buying at the Mefljourne Clothing Co. will amount to a considerable sum in the course of a year." At Trafalgar (Victoria) a young man named Collins, who is deal' and dumb, was practising at cricket when he suddenly placed his finger to one of his ears, at the same time smiling with delight, lie informed the onlookers by the use of the dumb alphabet that he could hear quite plainly. He is one of a family of three sons and one daughter who are all deaf mutes. You may search the district from one ei«d to the other, and you will not find a more comprehensive stock of good boots and shoes than is lo lie found just now at the Melbourne Clothing Co. Their famous low prices do the talking,*