17th February.
A Russian circular issued on the Gth instant, as we learnt from a Reuter's telegram—and it may be mentioned parenthetically that the issue of this circular makes the Czar's charge of treachery against the Japanese ridiculous,—announced the recall of the Russinn Minister at Tokio, and added " that such procedure on the part of the Tokio Government, which did not even await arrival of the Russian reply, throws on Japan the whole responsibility which can arise from the rupture of diplomatic relations." A manifesto has since, we are told, been issued by the Czar, in which again the whole} blame is, of course, thrown on Japan, but its terms have not reached the Far East. so far as we are aware. On the other hand, we have already published Japan's statem-ut of her case practically in full; and history will, i: cannot be doubted, admit it to be a complete refutation of Russia's claim to be considered the unwilling victim of Japan's aggression.
The lull with which this week has ened, and such a lull was inevit-al ab lo after the exciting events that followed immediately the opening of 2 el a ty tee Privileges, actualy. oe high, chat we may be assured that Wah Ching Ee a ved, est trouty when he charged the Japanese with with China. In a word, what Russia hi fir to Histon to Japan's. remonstranes,|enwoushess, he said what his Minis-has done throughout has been, not] Meacherys Re SPs tom not to show any intention of loosening her grip upon Manchuria, but utilise Japanese intervention as a means of legalizing her own usurpations. With regard to the pretence that the Tokio Government did not await the receipt of Russia's last reply, while it is technically true so far as the document itself is concerned, it is false in the matter of the document's contents, for the nature of the reply was well known, and it was well understood to be nothing more than an attempt, not even a specious attempt, to gain time for further warlike preparations. Moreover history will never agree that Japan was not in ree-ipt of Russia's reply. She was in receipt of it from the moment that the great Northern Power began to utilise all its vast resources by way of vetting ready to fight. Had' Japan's proposals been in any way unreasonable, Russia might have been justified in distrusting her ultimate intention, and therefore in making preparations for the worst But Japan's proposals, now before the world, did not contain one word incoasist-ut with or in excess of the pledges openly and solemnly made by Russia herself within the past two years, If Russia's attitude ters told him to say.
When it comes to Japan's statement, the " Mail" is necessarily very brief. "It appears to us," it says, "that comment could not strengthen the presentment." Truth is so simple that it does not require any outside aid to make it prevail; it is the fallacious and the mendacious that require a cloud of circumlocution to disguise their repulsiveness, Ji ''y the" Mail" concludes by saying: has been a thoroughly bad business from first to last as far as Russia is concerned, and its evil consequences will not be limited to the terrible conflict now in sight; they will extend ito Russia's relations with the East for many generations to come."
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