London vii Bombay, March 7.
Telegrams from New York state that Mr. Schiff, the financier, made an extraordinary speech at the Republican luncheon.
He said that he believed that a mighty war was coming in the Far East, and that Japan, Russia and Great Britain had entered into a compact to keep China in a state of vassalage. This compact would constitute the world's greatest menace, and Americans would be disagreeably drawn into Eastern affairs unless they could, by means of diplomacy, defeat the compact.—iter.
London, March "The Times'" correspondent in Washington reports Mr. Schiff's denunciation of Russo-Japariese-British attempts to keep China in a state of vassalage, and remarks that the existence of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States has been proved too thoroughly to leave any doubt of its significance as a factor in American international relations. Nothing, he adds, apparently will persuade many Americans that Russia and Japan are not nefariously bent on the absorption of Manchuria.—Special Service,
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