Show JAPAN UP AGAINST IT MUST AGREE TO RUSSIAN TERMS OR FIGHT while the report to the effect that japan has sent an ultimatum Is discredited europe expects a conflict the report cabled from tien tsin to london saturday to the effect that japan has sent an air ultimatum to russia la Is discredited in peking and no corroboration is in possession of 0 the legations while the knowledge of the th legations on the situation leads to the bellet belief that the sending ot of an ulti alti batum Is improbable the prospects 0 war are evidently increasing the tha british legation some flays days ago received a telegram indicating ind eating that war was possible still and the japanese legation Is officially informed that dussias Rus sias recent reply to the japanese proposals was unsatisfactory considerable anxiety exists jn in the best informed circles ot of london regarding the possible outcome of the situation in the tar far east fears are it Is said expressed that the russian government may have out stepped the bounds which would make peaceful negotiations got lations with japan possible it may be regarded as quite certain it asserts that japan will not accept the principles of the Russ russian larl note which are altogether at variance with japans main contentions and that ja pans reply must necessarily be cast lo in this sense |