"In the meantime, Japan's economic development in' Manchuria is being regarded by Russia with uneasy feelings. Russia's. interests and influence are represented by the Chinese Eastern while the South vay forms the pivot of Japan's. interests and influence in Manchuria, The Taonan-Tsitsihar railway ques-_ tion which has cast a gloom over' Russo-Japanese relations isa typical example of this. Russia, however, is to-day incapable exerting the same amount of influence as Tsarist Russia used to do, and she is not powerful enough, to push on a positive policy, courageously. In fact, even in regard to the Taonan-Tsitsihar railway, which is expected to detract considerably, both commercial ly and politically, from the Chinese Eastern Railway, all she could do was to lodge a protest China and, eventually, she was obliged to accept the situation. The fact is that Russia is not strong, enough to make war la the Far East."
Honckona, Oct. 8-Six American destroyers have arrived in Hong-
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