Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — JOHN BULL AROUSED. [ARTICLE]

JOHN BULL AROUSED.

Hostile Feeling and Intense Bitter* ness Evinced Against Rnsaia. Great Britain has been aroused to such a feeling of anger at the seizures of British ships by vessels of the Russian volunteer fleet In the Red Sea that even conservative government officials and conservative newspapers are clamoring for reprisals, and it is feared war will result unless Russia backs down, releases the vessels, and disavows the seizures. Leaders of all political parties are united in declaring these seizures an -inexcusable outrage, and in demanding that the Czar be forced to right the wrong. Men and newspapers that bitterly opposed the war with the Boers are now demanding radical action against Russia. Government newspapers are openly using threats of war, and declare the Malacca must be taken from the Russians by British warships. Another British steamer has beeu seized in the Red Sea: The British steamer Malacca, in charge, of a Russian prize crew, has arrived at Port Said with the ship’s crew under arrest. The authorities at Port Said have detained, the Malacca, refusing to allow it to pass through the Suez canal. Nearly a score of British warships are assembled in or near the canal. The warlike tone of such papers as the Times, the Standard, the Morning Post, and the Dally Telegraph, which in national crises hitherto almost invariably advised caution, has had its inevitable effect. There has been stirred up a storm of indignation among all classes in the United Kingdom, and the strength of which the government itself can scarcely gauge. Those who deplored the outbreak of the war between Japan and Russia and insisted publicly and privately that Great Britain, crippled financially, after her South African experiences, must not, at all costs, be drawn into the far Eastern struggle, are now among the most outspoken champions of a physical force that will prevent the repetition of the Malacca incident in the Red Sea.