Show TUB TIlE POINT 1 OF o DISPUTE l The rite precise e questions nt nl Ie be tween Japan and nU fire not gen gem generally underwood The Th dispatches IlI hove have conveyed contradictory c accounts of both hoth demands and concessions Recently lUvis It Wll said Mid that mm an ultimatum md hail been sent lIt to St lt le Pe Petersburg with Jan iou 7 n II z the thc time limit for Cor or a mm reply but Jut this w promptly de dc denied 11 nied The only timing thing that Is i perfectly clear Is IM that both countries are lire pre lIre preparing paring for tvr war ar 11 on un n a 1 scalo Japans Indignation at ll from time the with China In 1591 1801 At 1 that Hint tulle time China claimed to b be thu of or Corto nud Japan decided to ulI L Chum and assume the tile position Ilo of at To ro Japan expansion loll or of Influence Is II ns mis vital tig us II It is II for tor tho the mi tho the Asiatic CUll con tin n nt lh the Iho Island empire Is itt the natural way out of oC Isolation Japan commenced the war nr that ended III In the humiliation hu II nf ot China Chinn AH Att u IL m result Formosa find rumi part of ot Manchuria were I IO ceded to Japan Thin placed aCCI Irel Jian Jiana territorial frontiers frontier gave gae the Iho greatest military naval stronghold In Arthur brought her within striking dl die tonce tance of ot tho the capital nIlo of or China The were d ls with pride ride Hut Jill I at lila point tU stepped In Aided Ahel by I France Germany she de IO demanded that the ceded part of ot Man llIn Manchuria churia churlo IKS ti li returned to ChIna Russia appeared as att the th good go uJ Samaritan among nations pretending t ti restore to the victim of ot Japans greed tho lie stolen property In the role rolo of ot philanthropist imo he upheld by b other powers Hut html It see became evident that Russia stepped In for lor tho purpose o of oC securing for tor herself hUllelt the Iho booty she had compelled Japan to give Ie up lip built a branch of her railway to Port Arthur 11 hilI which she mime he leased from China Chim troops were moved Into Inlo Manchuria ad lid administered ministered the tho government of ot the tho country coun country countr try tr and amI now no Russia occupies and hn virtually annexed the th province pr out of ot which abe ousted Japan eight yenta years I ngo oGo And nul this U Is not nil nii Russia line has II steadily encroached on ott Japans In Influence I fluence In Corea oren orea and hns hue shown n U tile Ills I pOll position petition lion to secure territory and amid sa ima lI a that nation The rime Russians have b 0 thus tar far ba till filed tho time plant plane of Ja Japan Japan Jm pan In Corea Crea This Is the time trouble Ja Japan pan Ian s ek to 10 force Coree Influence out iut of C Coma Coren H It he were cre Victorious In Iii n mt war the she would no doubt romeo force her out of ot Manchuria too Vast Yut ate Ile nt nL stake on aim both bolh sides Various compromises have been sug suggested Jg Bellied but the time underlying question flue Is III it whether Hup la march toward to n 11 and control of or the Pacific roust Is 15 to be he checked There can cam cambe be he no imo compromise on that Issue Rus HIls diplomacy Is employed to postpone nor or but bUL thero Is h no imo change In the tho alley of aggression War may yet et be n inverted for Cor or u n time but buL the time probability Is It that It wilt will iii come corne cooner or later loter I That Timot IH Iii If the view expressed by Japanese statesmen |