AMERICA AND RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXIX, Issue 12112, 6 July 1903, Page 3

AMERICA AND RUSSIA.

THE HEBREW PETITION. ' United Press Association—Per Electric . right. Received B a.m., July 4th. : WASHINGTON, July <3. President Roosevelt, in . what is jaraciicaUy an official .announcement, says that he as determined to .forward the Hehiew petition to the Czar. The situation is delicate, but it is amofficially Stated at Washington that Mr .J. ,W. Kiddle. Chaigge d'Affaires at St. Peteieburg, will discover if the petition is jeceived. If an answer in the negative is xetr»rned, the matter. ; Will end.... . - • ,{ ■ Received 5.24 July sth. . July 4. The inspired statement. by President i .Rooseiffilt, concerning the, American peti- i tion in.. favour of t£e Jiws to the Czaiu j .which jhtts been issned .t© the press, is: io the nature of a Mplf k ±o the inspired statements which hare oeen made to the press' by . Cassini, ±he Russian Ambassador at vWashington. In ithese communications }£.<Cassini said .thatlßussia would .not tolersie any interfeneneeiin the Kiflhijieff affair, which was purely one of internal conaerfi. In. commenting on this, President .Roosevelt remarks that it is -■trange thatjßussia should choose this partSeular mooftgnt to make a sSemi-official i communication to American .people when, ;by methods certainly the reverse.of friendly to the . United States, she nought to make , China ; join her pljghted faith to ,*ll the Powers regarding thec&pen door in Manchuria, and endeavoured to. bar American access to the trade iof Manchuria. .