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Show ASKS EQUAL RIGHTS Japan Content to Let Russia Have Manchuria. KOREA MUST GO T0 JAPAN Russia Wants Japan to Bo Content Con-tent With Concessions. In Analyzing the Situation the War Note Is Never Absent, Although Diplomats Still Hope. ' Washington, Jan. 2. The Associated Prespj learns from an official source that Japan, In her last note to the Russian Government, announced that the minimum mini-mum proposition which she can accept from Russia are rights in Korea equal to those claimed by Russia in Manchuria. Manchu-ria. In return, it Is said, Japan agrees to recognize the supremacy of Russia In Manchuria. To this proposition the Russian Government will not give its approval, feeling that Japan should content con-tent herself with modifications in the form of concessions in Korea for her commerce. PRESSURE BY POWERS. The Russian Government has not abandoned hope of a diplomatic settlement settle-ment of the question, in view of the powerful pressure which Great Britain and France are bring!" to bear upon Japan to consent to a continuance of the negotiations, but it Is emphatically stated that Russia will never admit the parallel between her position in Manchuria Man-churia and that of Japan in Korea. DIPLOMACY BY" FORCE. Count Cassinl. Russian Embassador, thinks the far Eastern situation "gloomy but not without hope of salvation." At the Japanese legation tonight it was Intimated that if the Russian reply does not give definite assurance that in general the concessions asked for by Japan In Korea will be granted the To-klo To-klo Government will be impelled to abandon diplomacy for force. If Japan is convinced of Russia's intention not to accept her proposals the Toklo Government, Gov-ernment, it Is declared, will not hesitate hesi-tate to take the initiative and assume the responsibility for making war. |