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Show A LEX I EL F K KM K V E I) RUSSIAN VICEROY SENDS IN HIS RESIGNATION. Objected to Appointment of an Enamy to Succeed Makaroff and Asks to ba Rtlleved for Duty In Far Eait. According lo advlrea from Rt. Te(-arahurg. Te(-arahurg. Viceroy Alexleff haa applied by telegraph lo (ho emperor Ut ba relieved re-lieved of bla position of viceroy In (he far east. It Is expected that (he ro-ques( ro-ques( will be Immediately granted. While no official announcement has yet been mado, there la reason to bo-llovo bo-llovo (hat (he above atatement Is cor rect. Tho Immediate ratiso of Viceroy Alexleff's application to be relieved Is reported lo be the appointment of Vle Admiral Bkrydlotf. one of Admiral Ad-miral Aleileff's strongest onemlos and sliarpeni critics aa aucccsor to the lute Vle Adnilrnl Makaroff In command of the Hussion navy lo the far east. Vlro Admiral Rkrydlnff had an Interview In-terview wltb the emperor and dls-ctisKcd dls-ctisKcd with hla majesty the question of hla (Hkrydloff'a) relation with Alexleff. Alex-leff. The relieving from command of Viceroy Alexleff would no( surprise Intelligent observers of the far eastern east-ern situation who are familiar with the gradual cbanxn In the emperor's attitude towarda the viceroy, and M. Ilcrohratofr, who represented the militant, mil-itant, or advanced element, which was anxloua that Russia should remain In Manchuria. 11 was to these two men that the Analo-Japancse entente first lost Its friends. They believed that Oreat Hrlilon would not go to war and that Japan could not do so. To the Indignation of Japan they succeeded In turning tho policy mPlr from carrying out the treaty for tho entlro evacuation of Manchuria, pending pend-ing further demands on China, |