| Show I GREAT BRITAIN REGARDS AS JUST DEMANDS OF RUSSIA i 1 I 1 i I War Will Depend Upon Rus sias Position I f I MUST MAKE CONCESSIONS Whlls P01C9 Is Hopid fir Slt > uatl n Is Vary 6ravt I War Would Be Disastrous to Bot j and Might Nations Consequences s J Be FarReaching 1 I I I London DeL Diplomatic circles in London look for several days oC dull I ItUKoJapanesa negotiations The legation le-gation points out that Japans counterproposals J counter-proposals will possibly entail somewhat f prolonged consideration Meanwhile I London Times dispatch from Toklo says caysTho best informed circles In Japan do not share the pessimism which appears I ap-pears to prevail in London Inasmuch as the resources of diplomacy ore by no means exhausted and has created a more hopeful feeling especially ar the Time yesterday both In its dispatches l dis-patches and editorials took a warHko view of the situation SOME HOPE OF PEACE Embassador Choate who yesterday attended Lord Lansdownes reception at the Foreign oflice Is among those who can hardly conceive how It la possible I pos-sible that rom way out ot the dltH duty cannot be found In order to avoid u war which must be disastrous to both nations and the consequence of I which upon other nations cannot bf i foiiisecn RUSSIANS ARE IRRITATED The Russian newspapers are displaying t display-ing the liveliest irritation at thC British press whose antiRussian attitude at-titude in the present IlussoJapancBe dispute has aroused even greater pubIc I 11 pub-Ic animosity against Great Britain I than existed against Japan Thi Japanese Minister M Kurlno has been Indisposed as the result of a chill for t pome day and hns had no Interview with Foreign Minister Tjamsdorff Neither of the members of the 1 I Japanese legation nor the JnpantB J residents here are showing any sIgns I of Impending departure Dispatches from Berlin say An Intimation i timation has reached the Japanese legation le-gation here that Russia will concede f Japans requests j JAPAN MAY FORCE FIGHT If The British Government It Is under I stood from another source has represented repre-sented to the Czar that Great Britain deems Japans demands just and earnestly earn-estly expects that Russia will grant them This representation Is supported sup-ported by the utterances of the LJrltlHh Embassators here and In Paris who have Infoimed the respective Go ermnonts to which they are accredited that Japan In the opinion of tlu > British Governnunt will fight If Russia Rus-sia holds to the position taken in her reccnt note The Russian Embassador at Berlin has for several days been Inquiring In-quiring freely what the opinions > of the diplomatic corps are A dispatch from Victoria 13 C says TROOPS FOR THE FRONT Advices were brought by the steamer Olympia of I increasing nilnforcements arriving in Manchuria from Bussln 9 Correspondents at aioukden tell of the to the southern transport 1 ot troops borders toward the Korean frontier at the rate of twenty to twentyeight railway carriages twice a day The total number transported toward thi beginning of December was 17000 all of whom had newly arrived from j Europe JAPAN ALARMED I Reinforeeimnls which had arrived at Lloyang had arbitrarily taken up winter quarterp In Chinese temples and mercantile house causing great in l lllgna Ion and considerable suffering 1 I among the I Chinese Orders have uteo been Vent to hurry thf t coming of the I Russian deed coming from Europe 1 to Port Arthur consisting I of the battleship t I battle-ship Oslabyn cruisers Aurora Dmitri Doukol and Aiwa several destroyers boats 1 and ten torpedo The Japanese press Is I urging the Immediate Im-mediate dispatch of troop to Korea where it Is assertd Japan Interests aro monacal by tin > Russian milltar pressure In the north and Russian intrigues in-trigues at Seoul The impression is growing in till bwt t I informed circles that the adoption of nuch a policy Is I now inevitable |
