Show BOTH NATIONS ARE SUSPICiOUS Russia and Japan Unable to Find Ground PEACE STILL PROBABLE 4 WILL WILI Berlin Jazz Jan As the und fc t ent em situation the feeling to is s elt at Tokia Tokio that Japan will f f war j Russia answers b ar demands favorably Russia t f hs and 14 r 4 tends to enough of Japans 4 f to auke th Tokio cabinet 4 f feel that thit a cause for war 4 4 r 1 long exists and while the theft 4 ft note will not fully 4 4 satisfy ft t will prevent 4 4 of a declara 4 4 lion of vir vui 4 I iRIS J 5 Considerable tension PARIS r is observable in concerning the Japanese f union This is Ia due principally ally to th that efforts toward tord 9 a at t adjustment have not ide the progress which the hoped and expected general view of highest in authority a is summed up in 10 inthe the statement that negotiations nave nov no I u a point where re no K is occurring to hi any i Wh this nee n that flus sias latent dope does not make con conces n ces ions i kh are likely t to bring about a ment it is impossible to say s tho stage of tile the ne negotiations e y f the officials to with withhold hold bold precis details The only state statement ment is ts thai the negotiations are vir at A t standstill It appears that tine of th the most difficult features feature is Isi the i mutual u III It anil ItU hatred LI U C u III It ItU LI U C Chas has grown u between the parties I is sId that every statement of the present develops Japans suspicion or t good faith and to t Japan Owing to this thie bitterness diplomatic efforts to secure a ground grund are proving unusually It is understood that Rus ii is now no seeking to secure the neutralization of the strait of Korea Tn Th Russian view as in le kno vp here H F that Japans fortifies fortification tion erf of Mas nr ani Fusan conati tute a m monree to the worlds com coin commerce merce meree since it gives Japan control over the narrow strait It Is out in n support of this view that already d has a strongly fortified lelnd T u in the middle of the strait I slid and that this is distant fifty tty miles from and Fusan so o that the oC of the latter points will wiM another The strait of Korea is a outlet for br the of China and it i 18 it would IK be in lii the th and A to secure fh lien fion strait Neutrality of ofA A report that the consul couI at atChee Chee o China haa bai to the representatives of the powers Ko Koreas reas declaration of her intention to I I I remain is not confirmed at the foreign which is riot not aware of any action rf cf this character being taken or The attitude of Korea in the event of war between and Japan apan has been the sub subject of much comment among the dip diplomats as it is It believed Koreas giving aid to Japan might constitute two powers attacking Russia thus Jn France under the terms of oft tho he t agreement O of the ambassadors therefore asked Foreign Minister what re to result suit sult would be if jf Korea joined Japan and the answer is in substance that Korea is not neSt considered to be that kind of a sovereign independent power whoso whose to Japan against Russia would bring about the contin contingency gene gency contemplated by hr the Franco France Russian agreement Although the an was confined to Korea it is un thit a similar view prevails thereby previous reports on cm the saim caine subject that Chinas Join I t ing Japan would not constitute two powers attacking Russia A from torn Seoul Jan 23 an I that hat the Korean lorean government had made mado a formal declaration of neu neti iu iii the event of war between he Hu i i an stal l Taiwan and lat last night it was wap J from Seoul that a ca cablegram b f if received there from th h Korean minister at St it Petersburg j a that Russia disapproved wf f Ko de rat ion of gf neutrality i |