RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 884, 7 May 1903, Page 2

RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA.

A NEIGHBORLY GUARD.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 5. The text of the Russian demands in respect of Manchuria declares that Russia is entitled to guard in a neighborly manner the relations of China against alien interference. It stipulates that China shall not open as treaty ports the ports of Manchuria or permit the appointment of new Consuls without the assent of Russia; the employment of foreigners in the Chinese administration is not to extend to affairs north of China, where Russian interests predominate such positions must be entrusted there to Russians alone, instancing mining advisers, who must be Russians in Manchuria and Mongolia. M. Plancon, Charge d’Affairs at Pekin, signed the Russian demands on April stb. He now denies demanding anything as to preliminary evacuation, but he states that the conditions involved the necessity of Russia’s protection.

The Russian Minister is hastening back to Pekin.

New York, May 5. The New York Tribune scouts M. Cassine’s suggestion that special Manchurian concessions were sought by America. It declares that Americans have no desire to sneak in a specially prepared side door, but- want to enter by the front door, open to all the world.