RUSSIA AND JAPAN
PROMPT DEMANDED. WAR DECLARED INEVITABLE. \ Admiral Alexieff Still liolds the I Key to the Situation. ! (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, February 2. Fifty thousand reinforcements are exI pec-ted at Yladivostoek. j The 'Daily Mail says that Japan ] has pressed Russia for a prompt reply, intimating that other action would be j taken in a very few days il the delay I continued. I The "Times' 1 says ihe reply is expected jat Tokio on February 5. The Japanese jdo not anticipate su:id concessions. Admiral AlexieiTs iniluence still pre- ! ponderates. and he is energetically opI (losing concessions on the essential points I and recommends war as preferable. High military officers hold the opinion ihai war is inevitable.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 29, 3 February 1904, Page 5
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