Show RUSSIA IN CONTROL AND f CHINA POWERLESS TO ACT peking slay 13 china in reply to further representation of the united states and japanese ministers has again pointed mi tha impossibility of including in tho treaties the opening to trade ol 01 manchurian towns on account of russian opposition the american minister proposes that china open SIuk den harbin and alao all ports at the mouth of the balu yalu river C 0 baldwin of new york a representative of the southern cotton mills who haa investigated the trade conditions in manchuria reports that the american cotton trade was increasing 1 enormously until recently when tha bus siana began to exert pressure upon tho chinese amounting to coercion for orders for russian nimg amounting to bales of goods which otherwise would have gone to america r mr baldwin says tho foreign firms complain bitterly of the difficulty of conducting business under the russian methods and he believes unless russian absorption of manchuria is checked the united states will he deprived of a moat market for cotton althin ta few years |