Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1904 — WAR LOOKS SOME HEARER [ARTICLE]

WAR LOOKS SOME HEARER

Viceroy Alcxleff Given the Right to Da--clare It When He Think* Proper. London, Feb. 4, A dispatch tc * Rueter’s Telegram company from St Petersburg says the Russian general < staff has given Viceroy Alexieff au thority to declare war and open bos--tilities oil his own responsibility, if circumstances render it necessary.. The dispatch adds that au imperial ' manifesto declaring war is expected if the Japanese government does not accept the conditions proposed fn Russia’s response, which, it is asserted.’, will be Russia's last word. Baron Hayashi, Japanese minfster to Great Britain, described the situation in the Far East as “certainly threatening,’ ’but slid that everything-; depended upon Russia’s reply. St. Petersburg, Feb. 4.—Advfces re ceived here from Korea say that the feeling of panic is general there, and that depression prevails at all the sea port, where massacres of foreigners eventually are apprehended. The Europeans are preparing to send thefr families to Shanghai. Every steamer from Japan, it is added, conveys tc Korea many Japanese officers and soldiers in disguise, and their presence in such numbers is regarded by the Russians as being a secret ©ceupatior. of Korea. Sixty doctors have left St. Petersburg diming the last few days for Harbin, Manchuria.