Show FORGED INTO WAR Japan Has No Alternative Left Her UNLESS RUSSIA RECEDES Japan Adding Two Cruisers to Her Fleet of Warships Japanese Minister to Great Britain Says No Time Limit Is Fixed for Russias Reply I London Dec 2C Japan is negotiating negotiat-ing for the purchase of two Chilean warships the armored cruisers Em cralda and another probably the battleship battle-ship CapItan Prat which are for sale It Is now only a matter of price Negotiations Nego-tiations with other South American Governments for the purchase of Warships war-ships are also In progress Baron IlnyashI the Japanese Minister Minis-ter to Great Brituln said to a representative represen-tative of the Associated Press today relative re-lative to these negotiations We want more ships Of course this is only a precautionary measure and It may he a lot oC expense all for nothing 1 have no indication of the nature of the llusslan reply Personally I scarcely expect It will he delivered for some little lit-tle time There is I no truth whatsoever in the report that Japans last l note stipulated a time limit Asked unent the dispatch from Berlin or December 21th saying the British Government reported to the Czar that Great Britain deemed Japans demands just and earnestly = expected that Russia Rus-sia would grran them Baron 7Iiynshi while he was not aware of the precise action taken by Great Britain at St Petersburg said The British Government Is well aware that Japan will be obliged to go to war unless Russia modifies the posl Hlon she has taVen In her last note At the Foreign olllce here nothing is yet known of the probable nature of the Russian reply |