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Show Japan worries. Tokio, Dec. .V (Evening). Popular sentiment icgarding the question of the assistance which neutral powers are giving to the vessels of the Russian Rus-sian second Pacific squadion, which heretofore has been icpicsscd, is now glowing moie acute, and piomlncnt newspapeis are voicing the demand for deteimlned action by the Japanese government. Appaicnlly much will depend on t lie couisc of events when the Russian vvaishlp airive in Oil- ental waleis If the squadron shall have been peunltted to exceed a fair coiistiuctlon of neutiality, it is piob-able piob-able that Japan will consldei hcisclf under no obligation to obseive neutrality, neutr-ality, and may scud hci licet after the ltussians into poits tlie neutiality of which she bel!ves the Russians are violating. If the Russians sele a base in neu tial tetrltory, Japan will piobably do likewise, should urgency demand such action Japan Is keenly anxious to avoid complications, but she will foiccfully insist upon what she consldeis her lights. Prcpaiations foi meeting the Russian Rus-sian waiships aie pioceedlng on a most extenslvo scale, paitlcularly In the case of the navy, which is confident confi-dent of solving the pioblem undci fair conditions. The pieparatlons'of the auny Include the calculation that the Russians may attempt to cut the Japanese Jap-anese communications to the Llao Tung peninsula, but when the Russian squadion's second army ai rives In Manchuria, expect to be in a. position to cany on a campaign of many months without tho necessity of communication com-munication with Japan. |