JAPANESE HURRYING HOME FROM AMERICA. JAPAN WANTS MORE WAR. VESSELS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7874, 8 January 1904, Page 2

JAPANESE HURRYING HOME FROM AMERICA. JAPAN WANTS MORE WAR. VESSELS.

• ' LONDON, Jariuary. 7; ' It is reported that Japan is trying to buy four additional Argeniine war 'shin* The Japanese railway has refused trans. port for Russian marines. . : • NEW YQJfK, January 7. 6! Hundreds of Japanese trackmen at the mines are hastening home to' enter tlfe. army. *, • . • - ■-. , \ Japan has ordered ten thousand ton's of hay and three million poands of metis beef on the Pacific coast. ' ' '■,-.;,•;,

RUSSIA SHADOWING' JAPANESE ' SHIPS 1

manghuria; openly claimed.

BRITAIN WARNED TO BE PRBI

PARED

Received 8, 7.86 a.m. .\ "' .?,"- LONDON* J»no*ry Ji ■ Tbe liusshn war ships in iHe &I editoriranean. l»av« been ordered t& shadow the two Japanese croiscrs recently purchased G

HI VTrllUf . Owing to! Japan's resoluteness!, Chin* has dpcHmd to send a special' envoy to negotiate with Admiral Alexieff orec 'Mftneht'Vi'. The $?ovo« Krai, organ ai Port Arthur, pays that Manchuria would hei cefatth be Biissia's, never fo be su'rmide ed, • „ . ' '„: Eighty thousand tons of Welsh coal has bii n contracted for delivery > at Japanese ports at the eatliest moment. Jnjjan has given heavy brdVr* f or f ibe at Bonn*". '»'*"' The limes states thai the Nd*o« Trem,yA < « demand for the open appropriation of Marcburia is vfgorousiy aoi^|Mtt«d in the provinces. Novoeti, of" Odessa*, abd othti leading organs, demand' thVteKidi • lion of Mnrohuria, and commercial circles support his. : , , ,„ '„ Russian Government Brouritiek »n« industrial > hares have fallen heavil/on^he bounce , ;, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Odessa cfficiHl statistics show the next year's crops over a considerable area of BUMia to be deficient. The Times warns Britain that in the evm «t war, apart altogether from treaiy altianc , cirenmstances might forbid stand'inii i <ly by. The balance of power mus tut be materially altered to Britain's prtjuiC'. Our duty to. our trade with India ><nd AuBtEala^i■l forbids it.