CONJECTURE AS TO RUSSIAN REPLY.
GENERALLY EXPECTED TO BE UNSATISFACTORY. MEETING OF JAPANESE COUNCIL. (Received February 2nd, 0.52 am.) LONDON, February 1. The consensus of messages from. St. Petersburg, Tokio, and Port Arthur, is that tho Russian reply will be unsatisfactory to Japan. The newspapers at St. Petersburg are defiant and contentious, and seek to throw the responsibility of the ultimate upshot on Japan. The Marquis Ito, Count Katsura (President of the Cabinet), Baron Komura (Minister of Foreign Affairs), and others, held an eight hours' conference on Saturday. Russia purchased 20,000 tons of Kaiping coal on Saturday, and is negotiating for 30,000 tons additional, with, immediate delivery at Port Arthur. Yuanshikai's troops on the border of Manchuria, in the event of war, will number 40,000.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11806, 2 February 1904, Page 5
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