Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — CHINA MAY FIGHT. [ARTICLE]

CHINA MAY FIGHT.

Dispatches Indicate that She Will Make War on Russia, Dispatches from the seat of war indicate that‘China is getting ready to make war on Russia. The most significant news contained in tlie telegrams is to tlie effect that five thousand Chinese cavalry watched by Japanese officers left Tientsin for Chang-Kwan on the Manchurian border and within easy striking distance of tlie Russian troops. Two thousand former Chinese soldiers are harassing tlie Russians at Liao Yang. Tho Chinese are guarding the Chinese railroad and have thousands of troops disposed of at good strategic points. At • Shanghai the Japanese have threatened to force obedience to Chinn's order to the Russian war vessel Mandjur to leave the harbor, by entering and driving her out. Viceroy Alexieff -has threatened the Chinese with severe punishment if they fail to recognize his requisitions. At Fokin tlie Dowager Empress held a reception which tlie Russian ambassador. M. Lessar, failed to attend. This is- regarded as most significant. China has ordered two cruisers to Shanghai to eject the Russian gunboat Mandjur from the harbor. The Russian colony at Seoul has taken refugein the legation at Chemulpo and in the offices ol' the Russian East China Company, which is guarded by sailors.