The trouble with the present negotiations is, however, that the Japinese will ask as much as if they had totoly defeated Russia ina war. They will want to reduce the strength of the Russian troops in Manchuria to a lower ebb than before the Boxer. insurrection, and even such sensible paper as the **Asahi" thi the result of the present negotiations at St. Petersburg will be that Japan will be free to construct not only a Seoul-Wiju railway, but, a railway going beyond Wiju. "Tt is absurd," says the Asahi, ste think that Dalny is good terminus
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.