The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-06-08
The Russian Press and the Public
Receive President Roosevelt's
Offer With Favor.
THEY WANT An HONORABLE PEACE
The Negotiations, If Begun, Must Bt
Direct without Any Intervention
BY the Other Powers.
Japan viii BE Disposed To Grant Bet
ter Terms To the Russian People
Than To the Bureaucratic
Who Began the War.

washington. June 3.-The president
struck blow for peace in the far east
In a conference at the white house
with Count Casslni. the Russian am
bassador. the president expressed the
earnest hope that Russia would forth
with conclude peace with japan. Pro
longation of the war. he believes. will
not result in victory for the Russian
arms and can only serve to increase
JapanAs demands and render more diff
ficult the drafting Of Q treaty Of peace
which the czar as we'll as the mikadc
can sign. The president spoke. he
said. as the friend Of Russia no less
than Of Japan, and on behalf not only
Of the Washington government, but In
the interest Of humanity. Until his
words have reached Tsarsko-Selo and
have been communicated to Emperor
Nicholas In the friendly spirit in which
they were uttered. their effect can not
be estimated. Soon after reaching his
embassy Count Cassini began the prep
aration Of a dispatch to his govern
ment. Neither at the white house nor
ut the Russian embassy could formal
statement regarding the conference be
obtained.
st. Petersburg, June 5.-President
Rooseve!t's tender Of his good Offices
to bring about peace Is received with
general favor In the press and by the
public and desire that some steps
should be taken towards securing an
honorable peace is increasingly mani
fest.
The Russian declares that the presi
dent should be commended as an act
of friendship tending to bring about
Japan's terms of peace and Russia's
acceptance of an offer which would
not mean surrender on humiliating
terms. The paper maintains at the
same time that negotiations. If begun,
must be direct and that there must be
no intervention by other powers.
The Bourse Gazette says that Russia
must make the best possible use Of the
friendly offices of the United States
and Great Britain.
This paper, as well as the Syntoch
estva and the Nashazvisn and others
advance the idea that Japan will be
disposed to grant better terms to the
Russian people than to the bureau.
Gratis who began the war. These pa.
pers reiterate the demand for zem.
sky TABOR to settle the question. Even
the Greshdinin declares peremptorily
for peace. the Novoe Vremya alone
dissenting from the general chorus by
saying that the peace Is not SO essen.
tial as foreign and internal enemies"
imagine. and picturing Great Britain.
the United States and the continental
powers as beginning to tremble in face
Of "the yellow peril"
Toxic. June 5.-Adm. Yamamoto.
minister Of the navy, has dispatched
flowers for the room of RI. Adm. Roj-
estvensky. Accompanying the flowers
was a letter to the wounded Russian
officer saying:
81 beg to express my respects for
you in discharging your duty like a
soldier in fighting desperately for the
sake of your fatherland. I can not re.
frain from sympathizing with You in
your wounded condition and hope the
accommodations Of our hospitals and
ability Of our naval surgeons will ease
your suffering and speedily restore
your health"
Adm. Yamamoto sent a general let.
ter to the wounded Russian officers
and men expressing the hope that
their suffering would soon be ended
and that they would speedily recover.
Toxic. June 5.-Vice Adm. Togo Wis
ited Vice Adm. Rotestvensky at the
naval hospital at Saseolyo Saturday
and expressed his sympathy for the
aumirals wounds He praised the
desperately Courageous fight Of the