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Show THE BERING SEA. The Navy Department Considering; th Question of Massing Revenue and War Vessels for Protection of the Seals. The Russian Minister Has Given the President Assurances of the Aid of the Czar in the Behring. CANADA WILL SCREAM. But Says the London "Star" Will be Better Thau Serious Trouble With the United States. IN THE COMMONS, The Secretary of State for Foreign AfBtlrl Says that the Note or President Harrison la Still Coder Consideration. Washington, March 35. The navy de. I partment authorities hardly know how far to go in the line of extraordinary preparations prepara-tions until the international correspondence with reference to the Bering sea dispute bears a more conclusive aspect. Meanwhile, Mean-while, although navy officials concede that our relations with Great Britain are decidedly de-cidedly strained, few of them in reality expect ex-pect actual hostilities to arise. It Is also pointed out by the naval expert that it will hardly be possible fur the department depart-ment to concentrate o heavy force of Teasels Tea-sels in the Bering sea, for even if In utilities utili-ties should be precipitated by the exchange of shots in those waters, the war would not be fought there, but uearer home. It is rumored that thai president has been given by the Russian minister assurances that the Russian government will co-operate with this government in the matter of protecting pro-tecting the seals in the Bering sea. and ii that four men-of-war would be added to the fleet of six Russian ironclads now at Vladt-voatock. |