Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

♦ " Tire diplomatic corps in Washington is watching with especial interest the settlement of the question of the evacuation of. Port Arthur by the Japanese, in view of the demand which Russia, France and Germany are reported to have made upon the Japanese to evacuate the entire LiaoTung Peninsula without reference to China’s fulfillment of her part of the Shimonoseki treaty obligations. It is made quite clear at the Japanese Legation that Japan will not accede to this demand, if really made, without a vigorous protest A semi-official statement issued in St. Petersburg disposes of the rumors that Russia would probably recognize Prince Ferdinand ns ruler of Bulgaria. The statement is to the effect.that Russia will never enter into relations with the exist-

ing illegal Bulgarian Government which has been forced upon the principality by a usurper. Russia simply demands that a prince shall be chosen in accordance with the provisions of the Berlin treaty, with the concurrence of the Porte. The London Daily News prints a Vienna dispatch saying that this declaration of Russia’s position is held to signify the removal of JtodiDand. wd..th.e-jewting. _Bulgarian Government at the shortest possible notice. A dispatch from Madrid says: Republican and Carlist Senators and Deputies have addressed a protest to the Government against the payment of the Mora claim without the sanction of the Corteo. The protest declares that the Government’s precipitancy in settling the claim of the United States is unconstitutional and humiliating to Spain,- and that the cnnduet~ot the United Sfates in taking advantage of the Cuban insurrection to press the claim is an exhibition of an unfriendly, disposition. The Government: has decided to pay the Mora claim in three installments. Z It is Hip intention afterwartl to induce the United States to recognize Spanish claims for damages to property in Florida of citizens of the country whieh-n*ereincttrred"duringtheTeivil war in America. Fontura Xavier, the Brazilian Consul General in New York, believes that the Island of Trinidad, which was recently taken possession of by the British, will be regained by Brazil. He said the Brazilian Government was making every effort to settle the difficulty by diplomacy, but if these means failed he believed Brazil would try to take the island by force. “My < country's navy cannot, of course, compare in strength with that of Great Britain,” Air. Xavier said, “but our citizens are determined to assert their rights and have no fear of England.” When asked what position he thought the United States would take in case of war, Air. Xavier declarejr that it could not rema in neutral without violating the Alonroe doctrine, and that, he thought, the administration would be unwilling to do.