| Show RUSSIA AND JAPAN PREPARING FOR FRAY premier repeats proud boast that Japan Is la In position to protect her rights against t any power though outclassed on land Japan Is equal on seas f I I u 1 f 6 I n t i L Lr L r k kt kw krs 1 r i t rs w EI J I nu ff l I RU t 1 r a 39 1 e te 7 wpm rat lt J I is N J aei i 1 1 y a j A I Io o tole TItA J LL Ila a et l h r J A DEAL Dl IN I TUB TIIE SENATE Sg ArE ArEAs As If It seized by a 0 sudden Inspiration Senator Wolcott left his seat sent and hur hurried hurried ried across the tho Senate Bona to chamber lIe He sought the side of ot Senator who was deep In the study stud of or some papers and whispered a I word won In his ear car It looked for tor a 1 moment as If tr something very cry Important had haa occurred In which the tho advIce of or the venerable sage from Alabama was sadly needed A broad smile spread over Oer the fare face of ot Senator Pettus ax as he listened to his colleagues colleague whisper er and laid down his lie bundle of ot papers First I one hand went Into his lefthand trousers pocket It came clime out empty empl His Ills right hand went event Into the tho other pocket and was also al o withdrawn with nothing doing Hy lIy this time Ida his emlie had disappeared Then hs Ims vest est was waa Investigated rind and still without result Finally an aM n 0 gleam of or thought played across his face tac Senator dived deep deell Into his hili hip pocket amid a n small email package was IM produced He lie handed It to Senator Wolcott who held It underneath the tin th desk and on manipulated It for tor sev sev several oral eral minutes At t last lost with a 0 profound bow boll he goodby to Pettus and hastened back hack again to his seat scat s at A moment later his hand traveled to his mouth In fashion Senator Pettus chews the finest brand of at tobacco In use In the Senate Wash ington Post PORt tt The h above awve map shows hows the tho territory over which Russia anti and Japan ue are at ot Naval apan an against t Itus la experts emphatically declare that In the time struggle tt tk lit stove e picture tho time odds against the tho former little nation are not ns os great as 18 Is generally supposed While hll ns as will be seen by a glance at nt j tn enjoy a n military strength vastly exceeds that of or Japan the latter is e equal If not her superior on Asiatic seas SMS Not ot only does docs superiority of ot tonnage to the extent of or tons tone but many of o 0 t f her ships arc aro of ot very ory great power and 1 v v |
