Show ORIENTAL ADVICES steamship line increases capital japan company will establish new steamer lines russia has intimated to japan that she must vacate formosa s k vancouver BC july 1 the following Olie nial advices were received here per bleamer empress of china which arrived this morning the nippon kareha the largest steamship company of japan recently decided to increase its capital from to yen it s proposed to extend existing lines and to open new ones among the latter the first will probably be across the pacific to sound mr iwanaga was delegated by the company to close a pending contract with the great northern railway at seattle that point to be american Ame terminus for the new transpacific line mr iwanaga came over on the china and after transacting his business at seattle will visit new york and the cotton districts of the bauth the hong kong telegraph has published the telegram eliat russia has intimated to japan that she must from formosa whether this be true or not it is a remarkable fact that russia has massed at liadi a strong fleet and men aad vast stores of war material england ie recalling her inferior war vessels from the orient and replacing them with stronger ones but nevertheless is now spoken of aa the third naval power in the far east russia being the first and the second being left unnamed course is alluded to sarcastically in the japanese press as a splendid policy of aggression the eastern world baya that russia baa practically turned japan out of korea and published a lone article under the heading of it ia political hypnotism declaring that anything short of pe the most powerful order absolutely foils to explain why all the world stands with folded hands and in helpless apathy watches the development of the gigantic plans of russia for the dominion of the east the guard of sailors at the russion legation in korea has just been relieved by a detachment of 80 russian infantry twenty cavalry and artillery officers entered the town with the infantry it is reported that russia 1 built a fort on gensu fito island and that a gun is mounted upon the russian pointed toward the japanese consulate this makes thy ignorant koreans afraid of russia and contemptuous of japao lieutenant Lieuten ont thurston of the united states cruiser detroit died of typhoid fever at the american naval hospital yokohama june 10 and wai buried there with full naval honors I 1 |