. Review of reviews and world's work. The Malacca had on board a largequantity of explosives which the officers of thePetersburg thought were destined for Japan. TheBritish, on the other hand, claim that these ex-plosives had been sent by his majestys govern-ment for the British port of Hongkong. , There was, in point of fact, no groundSide of the for serious excitement in England,Question. ^QV ^e simple reason that Russia, inher present position, would not dream of inten-tionally violating the rights of neutrals in theMediterranean or the Red Sea, and for the fur-ther reason that the facts, s
. Review of reviews and world's work. The Malacca had on board a largequantity of explosives which the officers of thePetersburg thought were destined for Japan. TheBritish, on the other hand, claim that these ex-plosives had been sent by his majestys govern-ment for the British port of Hongkong. , There was, in point of fact, no groundSide of the for serious excitement in England,Question. ^QV ^e simple reason that Russia, inher present position, would not dream of inten-tionally violating the rights of neutrals in theMediterranean or the Red Sea, and for the fur-ther reason that the facts, so far as reported, inrelation to the passage of the Dardanelles, whileto the disadvantage of the Japanese, are notclearly in violation of Russias established cus-tom, nor yet of the strict and technical meaningof the treaty of Paris. The presumption of thistreaty is that if the Turkish Government atConstantinople raises no complaint, there hasprobably been no unlawful use of the Darda-nelles by warships. The advantage of the recent. From a Japanese painting. FIELD MARSHAL COUNT OYAMA. (Commander-in-chief of all the Japanese armies in the field.) rapprochement between England and Germanylies in the fact that it becomes easier to adjustsuch incidents as these in the Red Sea watersand to bring the common opinion of Europeannations to bear upon the fair and proper en-forcement of the rights of neutrals and thespirit of international law. TheJapaneseAdvance. By the middle of July, the Japaneseadvance had brought Generals Ku-roki, Oku, and Nodzu into closecommunication, making a combined Japanesearmy of two hundred thousand men, stretchingin a semicircle of about one hundred and fiftymiles, extending eastward from the northern point was about twenty miles fromthe railroad, south of Liao-Yang, through Feng-Wang-Cheng, on the east, to within a few milesof Kai-Ping (or Kai-Chow), on the south. A GreatGame ofFlanking. After the battle of Vafangow (orTelissu), July 14 to 1(5,
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