a there was, issued by the Department of State bus a threa' on this subject, which have been broadening, but their finan he war mow an pro-
ablished ~inee 1899. Oral communzon is still bounded by the count wd when the ¢adinent of least to believe jeations of a character certainly not immediately north ands de nu fighting not-less imperative have been made to them." In his final note, the Russian Minister in Washington, shows that the decline in the expert ding the threate: but till the Government to which last year of cotton gools to China the money that of they were addressed chooses to make and raw cotton to Japan is vous and them public, it would be obviously due, not to the crisis in the F: amount inopportune for the Secretary of State but to the rapid and violent a to give them to the world." in the price of cotton at home In his second note, Mr, Foord The following official table securities 3 quotes a remark reported to have the values in American gold of the ning into hund principal staples exported from the ing.
There was therefore goo cause been made by certain Moscow Erli-U.S. to China and Hong! the why many French fine should tors t" the correspondent of the first eleven months of 1902 and be more that usually ausious. When Associated Press: "The attitude of President Cleveland issued his his the United States has become equivocal. We do not like the dis-Cotton Mineral © Wheat_ to" threat to Great Britain over the patch of American warships.
Cloths.
Flour. Weneznelan ques of hundreds of indi of dol New York ito the extent in the the Russians cannot believe that their old friends will give activ in less than forty to Japan." Mr. Foord goes on to may, therefore, show that this m, h of "old friend-scene on the continental ship" has been w ked to death. A the oth y when the recent examination of the archives a blow rendered Rus harmless of the U.S. Department of State Another table gi upon the sea.
Rents nformed Us shows that it never had any founda-the imports of tea'and that the tion, Mr. Foord quotes one of the quarters into the United State shrewdest and most farsighted of the first eleven months of LOI, those who have ever represented and 1903, in Ameri d, their country abroad, Mr. Caleb unde Cushing, who wrote in 1876 to 1902.
Hamilton Fish, who was then U.S.
Secretary of Stati "All the flattering and sympathetic Yea the spent some utterances of Prince Corti chakelf 00,000, and yet on it nut sound hollow to my car. Russia can sols are ton tuis have no ties of sympathy with ins, These ly ple can political, religious, or commercial. article repr She had very close tics to attach her
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.