Russia and Japan. By Baron Suyematsu. (Probsthani and Co.)—Baron Suyematsu
states the case for Japan plainly and temperately. The prima mali labes was, of course, when Russia, backed by Germany and France—France, at least, must have repented before this—compelled Japan to give up the Liao- tung Peninsula, and then did the very thing complained of by getting Port Arthur and Talienwan from China and trying to get Masampho from Korea. Then came the " Boxer " movement, and Russia's very suspicious conduct; Japanese remonstrances; inces- sant delays in the Russian Foreign Office, up to the action of Japan on February 8th, 1904. As one reads the whole story one cannot help thinking that Russia has added within the last few years some names to the class of "historic liars," among them the man of the meal-tub who told the story of the shipwrecked men after the battle of Arginusae, and the Tartar who announced the fall of Sebastopol.
AN ENGLISH FARMER IN CANADA.
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