Show i NEW FIELD ARTILLERY Russia Sends Twelve Batteries Bat-teries to Far East GENERAL TONE MORE QUIET Emergency and War Ordinance Ordi-nance Providod at Toklo Hostile Preparations Still Going on in Spite of the Continued Assurances Assur-ances of Peace I I Moscow Dec 29 Twelve ballerina of tho four grenadier brigades of field artillery artil-lery stationed in and ground Moscow have been selected for turvlcc In the far East and have received new guns whlcl tho Russian artillerists claim are superior to Ole French field pieces The early departure de-parture of three of these batteries is expected ex-pected which will place 103 Held suns with the latest equipment at the disposal of Viceroy AlexletT I It Is said hero that all the volunteers living at their homes who as graduates or high schools are privileged to serve only a year with tho colors have been ordered or-dered Into barracks No extensive nov I monts of troops eastward have been ic ported here l up to the present A Toklo dispatch says An emergency ordinance promulgated last night invests the Government with practically unlimited unlim-ited credit for the purpose of military defense de-fense Three other ordinances were issued is-sued relating linit to the SeoulFusan railway which is brought closer under of llolal control second to the revision of I the organization of the Imperial military headquarters In war times third to the creation of a war council in war tim These ordinances it is considered completely com-pletely provide for ill cmoiKvnclee Pirln dispatches say It was asserted authoritatively today that the French Government does not believe that WJT lie nvcen Russia and Japan will bruau out It Is I declared that the Japanese noto which Russia is 1 now considering is not an ultimatum and It Is I further astfcrtoil that It docs not even suggest u late withIn with-in which u reply shall In niudo by the Russian Government One nf the diplomats diplo-mats ticcredited to Russia says the Russian Rus-sian Government considers the Japanese reply to be rather satisfactory It Is imkl that there IB no reason to be hove thnt the negotiations will be Interrupted Inter-rupted by Russias reply but it la understood under-stood that they wll continue until the details de-tails of an agreement are adjusted Finally l Final-ly It Is I generally said here that Russia will show her willingness lo moot Japan moro than half way |