Show VICEROY I ALEXIEFF Lf S T BE f RELIEVED fO Reason Heason cason for ills His Is Action is the tile Ap Appointment poll of Admiral A His Is Bitterest Enemy Euel ElIcit HIS REQUEST WILL VILL BE GRANTED Court COUlt and nd of the War Wf WarUp Up to o time the Time the Chief Causes St it Ht April AIlet has applied by telegraph to the emperor to b be I relieved of ot hits hi position of oC viceroy In itt II the far tor cast ast astI It I In Is i x ct Hl that thai th the request will still be tiC Immediately I grunted While no hires has yet tt Ct made mado there thero theroH Is IH H reason lo to that thal the above It iii Ii correct The ho immediate tl cause rauie caul of Viceroy Alex Ie lofts to I 1 relieved Is report Ii 1 t to lo be lie b tIme tho a merit of Vice Ire Admiral one OM of or Admiral strongest 1 and ind sharp sharpest est cult lt ns as R to 10 til the ho lute In tt Vice It ive Admiral In command of or tIme the 11 lan navy Hilt In iii the Iho fur far east rust WITH WIrl Vice Iee Admiral had hind nn an mid Inter J with stith the emperor today Coda and illi ls cussed u ll with wih his hilt hi majesty the time question of his lilt relations with wih Alex AIlt Ale Aleis leff is If ler The relieving from roam command of Vice Viceroy Viceroy roy 10 Alexieff would not noL Intelli Intelligent I gout gent tIL observers of ot time the fat far eastern situ I niton I who arc arl ar familiar with wih the tho th grad gradual nab ual change runge In the attitude to towards towards wards time the viceroy and amid M I who represented the tho militant or ad ut advanced 11 clement which was stun WIS anxious lOls iotis that Russia should remain In Manchu Manchuila ila I In U It I was stas to tu these two men that the Anglo l entente first Iret lost host Itt Its It friends friend They rhey believed Unit that Great Brit Britain rein ain not nol KO IW to tim tf war tsar nail and 1111 that Ja Jut Japan pan ennui not luot do to so To Tu tho thu of or Japan th the hoy succeeded In turning the policy polIe 1011 of ot the empire from carrying out outI I he treaty treat for tor or time the entire eltro evacuation nf or Manchuria pending further del on China On MK Aug Alg 12 last after lter Japan had sub Mih milled an In Inquiry UH its to whether or not was IBS disposed to t reopen tho tIme no 11 got respecting n Manchuria n a In the time far tar east cost n it f special secretary of ot state and an nd ad committee committe wera stern created Alog 10 left id being bohlig appointed viceroy and flew Bezo secretary of or state rn has utter after these appoint mentH were wern made mado M II Witte who has been heen op oed to to the policy of and amid was 1111 relieved of at hl his n ill minister of finance It was WM through his new nest nil ad berH that the emperor conducted tic with Jap n and cm It Il N II 1 claimed that they the misjudged tIme the tern per an purpose I of ot the Japanese and left the emperor In tn Ignorance of or the tho preparation for fur star which Japan and tho the rising spirit of at t that empire mm ms The Tho enemies of have er t enily asserted that n K as the titan man on the spot he tic should kept the emperor Informed concerning these vItal points On tho the eve Ie of or the war ncr ap rep apparently pa still had ha the lilt confidence of or the tM czar but hut the lark lack of preparedness nf ot otthA tIme thA Port Arthur Meet ns nil nhoun shonn In tim tho cones of the tho battleships and railed time the attention of the tho emperor lo to tho the of ot tho thin M l In the tho far tAr east eiml t The party arty In fit St rotor hUrl burg held that Vice VIc Admiral who was 1111 the tho viceroys representative was sas os responsIble under luder him for Cor tho the first reverse o nt lit Port Arthur Viceroy A recommended the tho appointment nt of or dither Vint ira 1111 id 11 1111 or 01 Vice Admiral to command the fleet In to In Vito Admiral The Tue emperor selected rend and at It the tim Ih en mo time Issued u it F 1 I ukAse kane it ni ii king him ii I am absolutely itel ly y Independent This Timis was suns W I the tho nr t blow publicly given to tn lo I tt The second was the time appointment of ot lea Jen kin a III as of ot the army In Manchuria sided with Count r run lora time tIle foreign minister and M d f Wine VItte against I t the policy ot of annexation and stated to the Chinese ChIlI e minister to o Russia Kuula Mr hoe Koo Wet Wei Teh Teb that the whole trouble originated with I That there might be te no doubt of ex exact art act jurisdictIon the time emperor issued rs ull nn an another other uk It and the fanner minIster of or mr complete r let control of oC military operations In Ia the Uze fur fiti cast TIt STAn VAD 18 In St Sr My tf r It roust then lieu have han been evident to 10 rt hla his star BLar had waned He lic had neither the th army nor tit the navy under hits his con control control trot helm charged char ed merely with Ute the rh CIt vii 11 hut but bu In time of truer there Is no rho civIl or very ser 01 little At first time Hie 1 Ive C fred tim dispatches from Crom 1101 hut but even flen this lut l ut of his hla wan wn re muted when tho Uto two tuvu commanders communicated direct ly I with the thue emperor When the k wan wait 11 Hunk Alexic Alexi started from Mukden for tor Port Arthur telegraphing to tho th emperor on his arrival there he had Imd hoisted his thug on art the and would direct the tho operations of nf if tho the until n it new commander wn Willi unit out It li Is said Hild hl that no answer to thIs was Sties SPilt by hy the tho emperor Without consulting 1 and with without without out considering Admiral whom suborn he hI hud haul originally r tilt thi Vice Admiral to 1 lo I Port lort Arthur via Ia St HI l command nf of the th fleet It In ii I wild said thil not oven even In this fact to 10 Alexieff 1111 he in IM sat 11 to learn of It through till the jirs III lI ronld consid ord the th mutter for Cor three days III at itt time the end IM of or which he hue Is IH said to have hAe reached a n decision to lo apply for tor Amm 01 Ol OP Time The hl calico 1 of or the enmity between and amid It I Is Impossible Impo lo lo C learn tonight it Is h to be he h deeper than a it mere mer difference of ot opinion opinion ion 1011 us UI to CI time the Ih polk to lo be lie pursued In Iii the tho far has ILIC not hot negated lI In talk talkIng Ing IIII to his to lo charge with the lit II ty for or the tunas lisas III tern to lo the tho squadron art ron by h his hl of time the lied fleet which plan left four Cour armored cruisers rR at tok amid the at nt Chem Cheni Jt It Is III I eald that Vice ico Admiral loft Ion In his hili interview today tolay let his hili ma am majesty jest jesty Je t understand he did not care to command of or the fleet until shall have hac withdrawn There Therefore tore fore the two men will not meet at Port lont Arthur TUI 1310 SALARY SAl R oE Viceroy cero li is I expected elp to come directly to 10 CI St Petersburg ant and his hl hope that he will still bo be h 11 to the council of the th empire Hy 13 11 his hili withdrawal front from the lIme far east Mill ho he will trill not only Dill lose loon Urn tue Ih positIon of or direct of ot tho the emperor hut but tho time salary solar of anti and an allow alia alice of S per mer annum When hell hevers his hip connection with the tIme tar far eastern question none of ot tho time men mell responsible rr poll for tho the policy par pur before Cite tha war will still bo ho In power poser M i having already lost In t tho the confidence of hl hits majesty and the tho ad nil advisory AllI I or committees duties dUlles at nt present being merely perfunctory H rt IH is not expected a 1 to will bo hn appointed OH as the Im Importance rn of the th post of ot viceroy has ho disappeared III owing to 10 the time result of or tho the tear |