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Show "m BETWEEN AillS MID JAPS BOUND TO COME Cueh Is the Opinion of Russian Paper, Which Expretses Belief That Taft Will Negotiate an Agreement With the Czar. St. PeterHliuig. Secretary Taft'a lour of the woild Is being followed with unusual interest here. The government gov-ernment Is taklns measures to iur-round iur-round the Journey through Siberia and European Russia with attentions usually reserved for rulers of states, nnd the press la busily speculating on the likelihood nnd adopting of n Russo-American Russo-American convention, the object of Mi-. Tnffs visit to Russia being. It Is nlleged, to negotiate an agreement between be-tween the United States and Russia. The conviction prevails here that war between Japan nnd tfie United States Is Inevitable In tho distant future. fu-ture. The Novoo Vremya published an nitlcle entitled "Tho New World Power." picturing tho marvelous growth of America as a sea powur during dur-ing President Roosevelt's administration, administra-tion, winning Russlnn diplomacy "not to be caught unnwarcs by coming events" and by adding: "The dny when thu United States fleet passes out of tho Straits of Magellan Ma-gellan and moves proudly- Into the wnters of the Pnllllc will opeu n new era for tho eastern world. Olllclal courtesies and the temporny lull In wnr tnlk do not conceal tho fnct that America Is reaching out for the mastery mas-tery of the Pacific nnd nlready Is strong enough to attain It." |