FINANCIAL AID

Southland Times, Issue 19305, 18 March 1904, Page 2

FINANCIAL AID

ROOSEVKLT CAIITTOT'S

St. Petersburg reports st'ute that. a group of international financiers! hns undertaken to obtain a 40 millions sterling wnr loan if Russia's existing resources nro exhausted. ,■ NEW YORK, March Ifi. President Roosevelt has instructed Naval Captain Perry not to preside at a Russian entertainment at the Waldorf hoJ tel as he had arranged to do, on the I ground that it might appear a breach of | the neutrality proclamation. KING EDWARD'S VISIT. v LONDON. March 17. Received 17. ltf p.m. The London correspondent of the newspaper Neueswiener Tagblatt having telegraphed that King Edward's earnest desire was that the newspapers of all countries should unite at the present time in promoting goodwill among the nations, a c*>py was forwarded to the King who has replied that ho attaches much importance to the tone adopted by the newspapers of various countries at the present juncture, and was therefore glud .to road the telegrum.

Tho Daily Express' correspondent reports that a ,7upuneso shell during the bombardment of Port Arthur on the UHh killed nineteen of the Retvisan's officers and men ; another, which burst amid aI crowd who had taken up a point of vantage killed '25. and a third set (ire to I a cruiser, supposed to be the Diana. 80 of the crew perishing. LET DOWN GENTLY. ST. PETERSBURG, March IT. Ukases have been issued recalling Aflinirni Jlnln.s. second chid of the stalT oi the KuHHiun Pacific fleet, and Vice-Admi-rul Stark, on the ground of ill-health. The commander of the Retvisaa is being

decorated

WILL NEED THEM

LONDON. March 17

Received 1 7th. .11.35 j>.m

Russia is building in N.ikolaielT dockyard three torpedo destroyers with v speed of 25 knots and a swift cruiser, and will shortly commence building i\ battleship, and another at Sevastopol

COKKA IN* THE KIELD

Itussin has intimated that inasmuch us she had joined Japan, C'orea will be considered belligerent.. Two thousand CoVean troops in Seoul Ihu> therefore baen sent north.

CAN SHE STAND IT '.'

Japan estimates her war expenditure at a million sterling weekly throughout the present year, which she proposes to cover by means of bonds, the temporary loan drafts on a special fund, and a new salt monopoly.