Our Port Artnur corres] recent, letter, quoted the ug that the " Ostasiati Lloyd"
posed to encourage a conflict between Russia and Japan, and keep alive petual misunderstanding between and England. Mr. Fink, the able diter of the "Lloyd," writes us that he is accustomed to see his paper mis represented in his contemporaries here, owing apparently to imperfect translation of what he writes, and he asks us, in order to remove the misconception that may have been caused by our Port Arthur correspondent's letter, to publish the following exact translation of the article in question in the " Ostasiatische Lloyd,"
1 we have much pleasure in doing.
follows oferring to the enlargement of the Russian Fleet in the Far East our St. Petersburg correspondent said fu this practical increment Russia's power in Eastern Asia the Russian Press is anxious to add also a moral aggrandisement. For this reason Russian ¢ heralded it as great political event, that at the meeting of Russian and German warships in the port of Vladivostock, the German officers men have been received with so much duality and enthusiasm by the Russian Jdim and the Russian public. One papers has found in the thunder of the luting guns the symbol of the intimate friendship of the two Sov reigns
armed brotherhood of Russia and G another, Russian paper, dwells on the any, taking in France as the th factor that ce-operated in the intervention of 1895 after the peace of Shimonoseki "As regards the actual political situation, this recollection of a bygone phase of diplomatic evolution may be considered "-nonstration of by no means uncertain meaning. It was intended for certain French politicians,—in the first place for Mr. Deleassé, as a hint, that Russia does not care for the realisation of that Anglo-French-Russian Triple Alliance, for" the preparation of which those politicians exerted themselves with special zeal on the occasion of the recent exchange of visits between King Edward and the President of the French Republic. Russia, in the interest of her Far Eastern policy,' would prefer Germany in the place suggested for England.
resting as this Russian yew of the situation may appear—the visit at Viadivostock certainly does not mean like its realisation. We need only point to the fact, that the German ship. immediately after its visit to Viadivostock, sailed to Yokohama and Admiral had orders to convey 2s of the German Emperor to Imperial Japanese Majesty. After. all. there were only three German ships bled at Vladivostock harbour, and only two of this number had a consider-fighting value. It is to be romer here that the lo naval stationed by Germany in Eastern Asiatic waters amounts only to 22,240 tons. Therewith Germany stands in the sixth place, not only considerably behind the
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