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Show RUSSIA'S FIGHTING TALK. Now York Evening Sun Tho ultimatum presented to tho Chinese Chi-nese government by M .Koroatovltz, tho accomplished representative of tho czar at Pokln, hns to do, In the main, with tho alleged failure of tho Middle-kingdom Middle-kingdom to abide by tho provisions of tho commercial treaty of 1881. That Iussla Is very much Irritated Is shown by tho strong language with which tho ultimatum concludes, to tho effect that unless satisfaction Is given tho government at SL Petersburg will tako such measures as it may find necessary. That is fighting talk. To outsiders, tho interesting thing Is the Iriglnal date of tho suposcdly violated treaty, 1881 when you consider that lor many years between that tlmo and the outbreak of tho war between Russia and Japan both thoso nations, whatever their grievances against each other, paid absolutely no attention atten-tion to tho rights of China. Undor the circumstances Russia's attltudo of Injured Innocence has a certain comic air. It Just shows that ho who Is most heedless about anothor's pro-'perty pro-'perty Is often most touchy about his own. |