The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-06-30
mo ARMIST|CE
| YET AGREED ON
JAPAN'S LACK OF FAITH IN RUS
SIAN SINCERITY CAUSES
THE DELAY.
Will Not Enter Into Agreement
for Cessation of Hostilities I'm
til ENJOYS Have Met to Discuss
Terms.

Washington, June 24.-Japan in
forms the United States that she will
not agree to an armistice until the
peace plenipotentiaries have met and
found each others credentials entirely
satisfactory. She would be willing to
do so il guarantee of some kind
could be given her that Russia will
negotiate peace in good laith The
presidents efforts to stop the fighting
in Manchuria have thus met with a
temporary check. So far as can be as
certained Russia has not asked for an
armistice, and will not do so. She IS
in the same receptive mood she was
when the president preached the idea
of peace. 1t is Japan this time which
is not welcoming the suggestion of an
armistice. Marshal Oyama has force
greatly superior to that of Gen. Line
witch. A tremendous victory will in
sure better terms for his country.
No Answer from Russia.
President Roosevelt so far has not
received an answer from Russia to his
latest representations regarding peace.
Lamsdorff may account for this de-
lay. While there is no official an
nouncement on the subject, the gen.
eral understanding is that these rep
reservations concern an armistice.
Russia Agrees to. August 1.
st. Petersburg. June 21.-Russia, it
is learned, finds no objection to August
1, as suggested by Japan, for the date
of the meeting of the plenipotentiaries,
and instructions will be sent to Am
bassador Cassini to accept it.
Nelidoff to Be Envoy.
st. Petersburg, June Pm. Nelidoff,
Russian ambassador to Paris, has been
definitely appointed one of the Rus
sian peace plenipotentiaries.
Expect Great Battle.
St. Petersburg, June 22.-The pub
lie, which has no idea that negotiations
for an armistice are on foot, believe
that great battle in Manchuria is
now beginning, and official dispatches
from both sides bear out the idea that
the Japanese have commenced their
main advance, though as yet there
have been no heavy collisions. If ne
gotiations for an armistice are on foot
they must bear immediate fruit in or
der to prevent battle perhaps greater
in its casualties than that of Mukden
Further Move Unlikely.
st. Petersburg, June 24.-There is
not likely to be any further move in
the direction of an armistice until the
plenipotentiaries are appointed and
the time of their meeting is definitely
fixed. Japan seems unwilling to dis
cuss any new issue until these two
questions are settled. This does not
necessarily mean that all hope of ar
ranging q suspension of hostilities be-
fore the meeting has disappeared, but
as an indication of Japan mood it
increases the doubt as to whether she
could be induced to relinquish tenn
porarily the strategic advantages
which she evidently believes she en-
joys.
Will Grant Parole.
Washington, June 24.-In response
to a request cabled the war depart
ment by the governor general of the
Philippine islands in behalf of the Rus
sian admiral Enquist to be allowed to
return his sick and wounded officers
and men upon giving their parole not
to engage in hostilities during the war,
and to be allowed to bring certain ma
terial for repairing damaged ships, the
secretary has sent the following tele-
gram:
you may allow Russian admiral to
embark his sick and wounded officers
and men on Russian hospital ship,
daily expected, upon their giving par
ole not to engage in hostilities during
the war. You may also allow them re
bring from Shanghai material for re.
pairing vessels, other than munitions
of war, such as cordage, sail cloth,
waste and oil, for machinery, etc., but
the vessels are still to remain in in