Show RUSSIA US I REFUSES tS q t tJ r rI J rAWS r PROPOSALS 11 I l H l J Foreign Ministers of lle hither Either Countr Coun Country Country try tr Conferring With a View Tell to toAn F FAn 1 An Amicable Adjustment I tI t SITUATION IS MOST SERIOUS Fears That the War Party I I I Is In fn the Clue Ascendant In Czars CZir Empire t 1 f i A SQUADRON SENT TO Warlike orl e Proceed With t t Speed SlIced nt at I Japanese Arsenals A St SC Petersburg Petering Jan I appears appears tobe to tobe tob be b true that lo has decided out hot to 10 accept Japans u proposals but Ut Chit Ihl foreign n office oday Informed Iho Associated Press that Minis Minister tale her ter and time the Japanese Ild minis minla minister ter mi are still pill with wIlh the Chu view vlen of at lt an n amicable let set et emel t the situation Is le regarded an as II beau mom mos serious VAIt IS EXPECTED D London 2 No Xu word has hA yet et born been received ree here tending I to show when w the lase Russian HU to Japan insy rAey ay be hI expected eJected Foreign Secretory Secretary Lao Lans ili donna Mie hUB bus Informed Huron Ba na the Japans minister that he hc tears that the war party In Is IH In tm the J ascendant and ali that he haji hW taint fatal hopes hoped hO 1 of ur Japan Joal receiving lc a favorable reply Haron Baroll stays nays he has boa hl received nu no news of ur the Intended dispatch o ot a t Japanese squadron to The Tho last news hews newl h he heard was that a II Russian cruiser was tuns there The fhe minister point pointed ed ell out that the ilie dispatch 1 1 ut of a I squad squadron ron run lo to would not necessarily be rt a 1 warlike action nun hough U It I weld could scarcely help being regarded reg In Inthe Intha tho Una lino Un ot of other precaution Which Japan J n ban haa bal openly taken The weekly papers here share In the general g feeling of or alum current te ln kr 11 11 fr The and S spectator ec tf a ar nays saya nor draws drawn druIa ever neater and adds ads If U f we are dragged Into this tt war ar ua as I we may be bl the he country will VIII wi not be b dl di divided vided sided In sympathy dislike of ot Julla I being n as 1111 strong among the th maraca mla ot of our our population as W It ft I was WI In 1655 The paper surmises that HUlla ala may kte keep her ships In iii II tho the harbors tut as she eha dbl eil during tits Crimean war land actions or a I dangerous at and tempt cusp by b Julann to seize adze Port Port Arthur The he Saturday Hele adopts a I some me what similar tone lone saying that tho tike like hood of ot Chinese Intervention menace the tho commercial Interest of or all 11 lur und and the tho United States I Information Ian has been hlen received rc hed In I London diplomatic quarters to Russia that M o Icbm who wan der 1 1 recently raised by the Iho czar ciar to t a a of or state IB Ie the tho power behind flor he Ih scenes of oC the II ne M 51 to thin Chits Kource lure of ot Information who IH b 1 now the lire prime favorite of the czar and tin the Ihl lender of at the war party Is la pr unc l i dent of ot the Ufa Timber corn com a cm puny pany Is I largely Interested In commer cammer cial Ial enterprises In II Corya Caren and Is la the tho th bosom bU friend of 1 or lexor Though the news Ile Is hI evidently partial I U It receives tonic credit and adds to lothe the tha alarmist i h SQUADRON SENT SF T TOJ JO Tollo JI The report rt 1 la is current that the tho Ihl Ja S rel of or six alx armored cr Hrs under Admiral Kaml aura mura lura now nol at n will 1 seize tho the port lir of or Cores Coren CorA nail that Its It departure lion has boon hOen I fixed Ib d for tr Jan 4 1 In well Informed circles however cr It Is III n doubted doubled that would seize Mn M alpho or any al Corean port por except to 10 forestall forestal Russia 0 of the tat 1st ter tor showing of an Intention f r to lalo taI each SUII n A step or In the tho event Qt cc the negotiations between hn tho two coun Inns Iro dually thrall ending COUl i Great Orent land the forces forcen torel of tit workmen Ina hll beet Increased cd at nt hits t 0 Osaka aki Tho The holidays of ot Cho nr operatives have hate loon been ben th I In order to hurry hurr hurl up tip tho tha work i In III n hand hoh l 1 |