19th April.
THE, March issue of the journal that Ma Foord edits with so much ability is a very serious one, The "Current Comment" opens with the remark that "the month of February 1904 will be memorable in all history for the epoch-making victories of Japan," and Mr. Edward Dicey is noted for his implied approval of the work Japan has done in effecting "the recession of the Russian shadow from the face of Eastern Asia." Mr. Foord then refers to the evidence contained in the Japanese white-book of the patience and forbearance of Japan throughout the negotiations that preceded the present war, and the
those who unfortunately had the direc-unconciliatory spirit, displayed by tion of the Russian policy. Mr. Secretary Hay's note inviting the Powers to ce-operate to localise hostilities within as small an area as possible, is shown to have been an endeavour "to bring about an agreement on the part of the belligerents to respect the territorial integrity and administrative entity of China outside of that pert of her empire which happens the scene of hostilities. China must be held to have the same right to abandon a position of neutrality as she hus to assume it, and with her identification with either combatant must inevitably come an acceptance of all the risks of war. The work undertaken by Mr, Hay was emphatic cally one in the line of international duty, because no other Government sve ow own could have brought to it the same freedom from any suspicion of self-interest, A refusal to undertake such a task would have been a manifest shirking of the responsibilities pertaining to the unique position occupied by the United States, but its successful accomplishment is none the less a conspicuous triumph for the clear-sighted and tactful diplomacy of Secretary Hay,"
Mr. Foord then notes that the question of the friendship displayed Union during the Civil War is still by Russia towards the cause of the
being discussed in the daily Press. Mr. Foord points out that there are four theories to account for the appearance of the Russian ships at.
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