The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-04-29
NO TALK OF PEACE.
russia Is Not in Mood to Accept An,
Terms, and Intervention Will Not
Be Tolerated.

St. Petersburg, April 27.-The Asso-
ciated Press is able to announce au-
thoritatively that the talk of mediation
IN the Russo-Japanese war was found
ed upon the personal desires of King
Edward and King Christian of Dem
mark to avoid further bloodshed and
end the conflict. but the steps initiated
have utterly failed.
The emperor, With the full concur
renee of the imperial family and his
advisers, has firmly decided not only
to reject all proposals looking TO inter-
vention, but to prosecute the war With
all the resources of the empire until
victory has crowned the Russian arms,
and then, when the time comes for
peace, to make termS directly with the
enemy
Interference of outside powers will
not be tolerated. There is to be no reps
etlt1on of the Berlin congress.
Furthermore. the Associated Press is
authorized TO state that Russia will in
Ino wise conside1 herself bound by prop-
psitions made by Japan prior TO the
war. Hostilities have wiped out the en-
gagements Russia offered to make With
Japan regarding Korea and Manchuria
Russia Will consider herself free to inn
pose such terms as she desires.
Exactly what form of mediation was
TO be brought about, or if, indeed me-
diation or good offices" We're actually
offered, what steps We're to be taken,
how far they progressed or where, is
not disclosed. All that can be stated
with absolute postiveness is that what
ever has occurred in the direction of
ending the war was above the level of
cabinets andS Schancelleeries. and had its
birth in the personal solicitations of the
emperor's uncle and grandfather.
1t is known that after the disaster
TO the Petropavlovsl the king of Den
mark wrote the emperor Il letter of
sympathy in which he expressed the
hope that way could be found to avoid
further bloodshed. 1t is presumed that
the situation was canvassed during the
family reunion at Copenhagen and that
communication was sent out in a
friendly fashion from Paris.
Whether a communication or a prop
osition on the subject ever reached the
emperor has not been learned, but it is
certain that the matter reached such a
stage as TO compel it's consideration and
to induce the definite announcement
made this afternoon that the war must
, be fought to finish and that the pow
ers must keep their hands off both dur
| ing the War and the peace negotiations
! at its conclusion.
Ten days ago a dispatch from Toxic
was printed here that Japan, in full
possession of Korea, might possibly
be willin1Y e e STOP thee Xal phi the basis
,, or rrle existing stt1ruatioh- This dispatch
attracted little attentf6n al the time,
!, But it is now thought possible that it
might have had some connection with
the movement for msdajstiea- msdajstiea n
here that the Russian people are not
in temper to consider peace. They
are thoroughly aroused by desire to
avenge the losses and humiliations they
have sustained, and even If the emper-
or himself, absolute monarch as he is,
were disposed to listen to propositions
70 end the war at this juncture he
Would do so against the almost unani-
nous protest of his subjects.