London vid Bombay, March 17.
"The Times" urges China promptly and unequivocally to accept those of the Russian demands which China has not the means seriously to contest, and to negotiate earnestly in regard to the others. "The Times" points out the grave consequences of a refusal for China and all other Powers interested in the Far East.
The paper scouts the idea that. Japan had not been a stranger to the supposed designs of Russia and sought her own interests in supporting them. "Japan," "The Times " adds, realizes too clearly the calamity of a Far Eastern crisis which such action would entail."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.