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Show .-1 1 v . . . , 1 . J 1 i. iT.. i t lJ . Hcscntpcnt in Russia flay Tcrcc Issue and 'Erin: on Great Euitpcn Conflict. draw from Japan's reach and so stanch the bleeding la men and mpney now going on in Manchuria'" Further, according fo the Spectator, military, men in Russia believe the 'war against Great Britain would- be conducted in company with Germany, whose colonies could be taiten In the event of the British . being victorious, while as the Russian fleet" has already gone. Great Britain could Inflict great, injury to Russia." 1 LONDON, March; 6. The Russian Embassador, Cpunt BenckendorJt, who. returned from St. Petersburg Wednesday, Wednes-day, yesterday visited King Edward and presented the Klnj with an autographic letter from the Czar. ' . ': Thls.wa in answer to a leter sept by the King, who, on hearing that the Count intendd going to St. Petersburg, sent for the Embassador and asked, him to band tha Czar an autograph letter, ta which King Edward In the most friendly terms emphasized Great Britain's com-) plete neutrality during the war In the far East, and said he trusted that the Czar would pay no attention to the press reports intimating Great Britain as not neutral, nor to any unfriendly comments of the English papers, which the King regretted. The Spectator today eay in a' long article on the effect of the Russo-Japanese Russo-Japanese war on international relations, especially the relations between Russia, and Great Britain: ' ....... "We do not want to appear aa alarmists, alarm-ists, but we would be doing harm and not good If we tried to conceal the fact that the. present situation in regard to foreign affairs is one of 1 considerable anxiety." : . ; .,- The Spectator points out how "the Russian feeling' of resentment ' against Great Britain Is steadily rising, the Russians Rus-sians being convinced that the British have been the chief cause of their diffl-pultles diffl-pultles by encouraging the Japanese to gq to war. . ' ' ' "Without considering whether there is any truth in this view," continues the Spectator, "the Important fact la that it Is held by the Russian people, and that public opinion is in such a state of excitement ex-citement that war with Great Brtaln would be extremely popular."' Proceeding to explain why the military mili-tary party should try to "escape the humiliation of a. possible defeat by small Asiatic power," the Spectator remarks: re-marks: "A great European war would oblit- 1 erate all traces of the Japanese war. A popular war would cover up an unpopular unpop-ular one and give the Russians an excuse ex-cuse to make peace with Japan or wjth- |