There xre rumours that the inauguration of the foreign set: lements here and in Weihsien and Choutsun is to be delay: six mouths or more, Yuan Shih-kai being said to be responsible for the postponement. Just what this means, if it prove to be true, it is not easy to say. What is tobe gained by delay, ifthe Concessions are finally to be granted. does not appear. One of the interpreters in the F. reign Office told me some time since that it lisd been decided that the Concession here was to be six 1
Linoyang and ty-five miles lung, would meet very nearly at Tsingh" cheng. The Japanese occupation of auch a position, alrendy semi-permanently forti-owing its importance as a Russian position, cannot fail to cause a rapi construction of the entire Russian pi Curiously enough the position is about the same dis'anco from Tishling as from Mukden and Linoyang, ani thus it constitutes a very powerful point d''appui for future operations upon the Russivn communications.
The Future of the Wa The "Kokumin," which has recently published many sensible articles on the international situation, had on Monday last a leader under the title of "The War and Peace." It asserts that the Czar, is confronted as usual with divided counsels, is unable cit! or to prosecute the campaign vigorously, and gees on to cite some precedents to show that a war may come to an end without porce negotiations at all. Thi happened wit Franov-Spanish war in 1702, the Polish-~wedish war in 1716, and the Russo-Spani h war in 1891, The "ar between Spain and the American cvloning also ended by x cessation of has i ities through exhaustion, Such is not the conclusion desired by competent States, but it is not absolutely improbable in. the case of Russia. Japan does not desire such an end, which would fix unqualified disgrace upon Russia. The " Kokumin" then refers to the domestic unrest' in
unpopularity of despotism. and to the Russia, and attributes it principally to the proposed Slavonic of un.
ted Russian subjects. The Powora
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