Eastern Affairs

Southland Times, Issue 19103, 21 July 1903, Page 2

Eastern Affairs

A COAL MINE WOULD BE MORE

USEFUL,

BRITAIN'S REQUEST

CANNOT STOP CONTRABAND

|; ARMS.

Per United Press Associatibn. ; By Electric Telegraph— Copyright,

PJBKIN, July 19

A wireless telegraph station has been established at Port Arthur to communicate^ with Russian warships In the\Guli^ of . Pe-chHi, /: i :

LONDON, July 19

Router's Yokohama^ ' ■) correspondent states that Britain has requested that Urgu be opened to .foreign trade, Corea is believed to be favcwrable to the request.

The Powers abandon all the prohibitions against}>.;the : . : ..S^pQr.jtation-...0i arms to China^to: laipse( /in/r^ug^st. as they are considered ineffective/

PEKIN, July 20 TALK COT WAR.

KeceiV6d 20th; 11.57 p. in; ; DiplomatisiLs here consider the gi'a-r, vest factcT o/ the situation . is the increasing danger of a RusiiO*Japanese war In the spring : ■"owing" to Jaj>linese growing irfit)aiipii. byer ;: JR.iissia's activity along ; the Yalu riyeir. It is stated that Russia-, is willing'to fight, being convinced of. an, easy Ti.ctoiy if other Powei's do. not inteiy v«ne.

THE BEAR IN KOREA

Russian xelegraphic cpinmuiticatipn between Autung and Vohgftmphp has been suspended owing to Koreans protest, Pakloff ■: cohterids ~v that't^e timber concessions made in J^orea, tp Russia carry the right to - build ; a railway, erect • telegraph lines v'ftKd open mining) jofpces. vv j ■'.-•■■"'-.■■■