Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-14
AN EMPEROR'S REPLY
Russian Rulers Answer to
 Roosevelt's Bid For Peace.
BRITISH SHIP SUNK IN CHINA SEA
As Czar Is Willing President Should Name Place For Conference An- nouncement Is Expected From
 Washington Soon.

WASHINGTON, June 14-A special
 from St. Petersburg says that the for
 eign office last night issued the follow
 ing communication: . l ''The president of the United States has instructed his ambassador to the
 Imperial court to request private au- dience in order to convey directly to the emperor assurances of the unfail-
 ing friendship the United States en- tertains for Russia and to express
 President Roosevelt's personal desire to contribute as much as possible in
 the interest of the whole world toward
 the cessation of hostilities in the far east. The ambassador was instructed to add that the president was making simultaneous overtures to the Japanese government
 'The emperor was pleased to receive the American ambassador and gave benevolent attention to President Roosevelt's initiative. which had more over met an entirely sympathetic re- ception on the part of friendly powers.
 Russia, being convinced that Japan was equally disposed to accept Presi- dent Roosevelts proposal which was transmitted through the intermediary of the representatives of the republic at St. Petersburg and Tokyo to the i'm perial as well as the Japanese govern ment, received favorably the official
 at @ha ho d.,,- and notification to this effect was pub lished in Washington.
 Tn reply to this communication the foreign minister. acting under the em- peror's orders, informed the American ambassador that the emperor, deeply sensible of the sentiments expressed by the president, was pleased to see therein fresh mark of the traditional friendship uniting Russia and America and precious proof that President Roosevelt was in complete accord with the views the emperor held on a gen eral settlement so essential to the good progress of the whole of mankind. As for an eventual meeting of Russan and Japanese plenipotentiaries charged with ascsrtaining how far 1t wof d be possible for the two powers to elabo- rate conditions of peace, the imperial government would have no objection in Japanese government expressed de sire therefor"
 The story of the projected sale of the Island of Sakhalin to the United States Is revived here. The prospective pur- chaser Is said to he an American syn dicate. and it Is asserted that the price has been fixed al $s0.0C0.000. It Is stated that Admiral Alexeieff. head of the committee of the far east, is op- posed to the sale.
 A Singapore dispatch says that the Russian auxiliary cruiser Dnieper flor merly the St Petersburg recently stopped the Dutch steamer Flores (from Amsterdam to Batavia in the straits of Malaccs and transferred to her forty-one of the Chinese crew and the mails belonging 10 the British steamer St. Kilda ffrom Hongkonal captured by the Dnieper with contra band on board and sunk in the China sea
 The European officers of the St Xiii da returned here on board tbe Dnieper.
 Dispatches from Washington say that an early announcement of the time and place for the meeting of the Rus sian and Japanese peace plenipoten- tiaries is expected to come from Wash ineton as q result of the exchanges be tween the belligerenfs on that subject now prooeeding there through Count Cassini and M Takahira. with Presi- dent Roosevelt as the intermediary
 In diplomatic circles the report is cTIr- rent that Russia. whose choice of place continues to be Paris. Is ready to allow President Roosevelt to decide the place of meeting