Show TO THE DEATH Baron Hayashi Takes Take a 8 Gloomy View of the Situation London L In particularly frank language Baron after tation with the foreign fo l office ece tonight summed BUmmed up the he be situation for tor the Asso Associated clat d Press Pre as follows I only hope the czar cur will give live us Ut peace but bat my hopes are not strong trong If we Ae go to war it will be for tor whereon both America and aDd England ED d have Imd Insisted diplomatically Uy We Wl have hive received no pledge from front any country that in the event of defeat it Jt will step in and save ave us from being bel absorbed by hr Russia We cannot count coot even in ex ox extremities extremities on the armed support of any JI nation in the world It would be a struggle to the death Perhaps we are not strong enough to fight Russia I There Then are two opinions about that tb t I Baron Buon Haya hl intimated that he lie thought t Japan was bound boand to be beaten in the end nd If we were beaten the minister er re resumed r sinned Russia would take lAIrs Korea sad aad Manchuria by b right of conquest t and md possibly Jepa No power cm on earth could then dislodge her from central China and all the far east I am sur sure it is better to go to war when you know kno you are an right even eveR if defeat IB It possible than to see your independence submerged d under a continued continUe aggression es sion aba that te is bound to absorb tb you even eventually tusH Nothing can avert war between Rues and apan m h future years y eveh If It peace pace is procured now DO so o r long loB as M Russia pursues her present far eastern policy The American action in enforcing I the toe opening of or the ports was iwas a splendid example of bODett dl di diplomacy I It was a straightforward stan which contrasts favorably with lan Ru methods method No other tuition nation ex cx except x Sept t Great Britain when w en the British the tb two Chilean ean war Wr but has taken ken any auy pea practical 1 step to ltv up uj to its diplomatic demands upon u n neut tie t far fajr east We believe U Uwe we are th now fighting a diplomatic bit bat battle bittie tie tle in behalf of America and aDd Great J I Britain but if only war can settle ett it we know knew we shall receive T assistance from neither n We are prepared to fight our oar own battles bottles and take the conic conee i |