Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-06-10
RUSSIAN EMPEROR
IN FAVOR OF PEACE
War Party, However. Hopes He
Will Continue Struggle.
JAPANESE TERMS ARE UNKNOWN
P.enipotentiaries May Meet Upon the
Battlefield in Manchuria to Discuss
Articles of Peace-EngIand Satisfied
stith Roosevelt's Acts.

St. Petersburg, June 9.-11:35
m.-The government is plainly prepar.
ing the public for the announcement
that the emperor has decided to con
clude peace and that the negotiations
have begun by permitting the puDlica
ton of all the foreign dispatches bear
ing on the subject. The newspapers
and the Russian public have until now
only had a suspicion that important
moves were going on behind the1
scenes. In well informed circles it'll
is believed that Japan already has in
structed Field Marshal Oyama to stay
his hand pending the result of theI
present tentative negotiations and that
General Linevitch also has been conf
dentially advised of the situation. New
ertheless the irreconciliable remnants
of the war party are believed to be-
urging the Russian chief
to assume the offensive in the hope
Of achieving victory and thus change
the emperor's present disposition in
favor of the conclusion of hostilities
If such an intrigue Is in progress.
1t has no chance of success. 1t can
be assumed that there will be no fur
ther blOodshed in Manchuria until the
belligerents have decided whether it
Is now possible to agree on peace
terms. The government In the pres
ent emergency is acting with great wis
dom.
1t is preparing to time the proclama-
ton of national assembly with the
announcement that peace negotiations
have begun. The committee of min
listers is hurrying through its examina-
ton of the Bouligan rescript commits
sions project for the Gosdarstvennaia
Duma, imperial duma, the plan already
outlined In these dispatches, it's con-
sideration having commenced yester-
day and continuing today. Practically
no alterations are being made in the
text and the Associated Press learns
from a prominent Russian statesman
conversant with the situation that the
review of the Bouligan commission's
project is purely formal as manifesto
promulgating law giving the Russian
people voice in legislation is already
drafted. The informant of the Asso-
etated Press claims to have seen the
original and he expects the law to be
proclaimed early next week.
Evidence accumulated that Pres
ident Roosevelt's efforts on behalf of
peace have been surroprted practical
ly by every European power by the
transmission through their representa-
tives that it is the solemn conviction
of their respective governments that
the time has arrived for the warning
countries to conclude peace. The pres
idents endeavor seems likely to bring
the plenipotentiaries of Russia and
Japan together to arrange the prelim-
mary terms for the conclusion of a
limited armistice and the selection 70
q place for the fuure negotiations and
the plenipotentiaries in the opinion of
the diplomats will make the next
move ,as it is not believed Japan will
divulge her terms until the plenipo
tentiaries meets The ambassador
of one of the great European powers
expressed the opinion to the Associat-
ed Press that the exchanges would not
occur either at Washington or at any
European capital, but upon the battle
field in Manchuria.
Both. Russia and Japan desire to
conduct the negotiations direct, said
the ambassador. Where is there a
better place than Manchuria, which is
beyond the sphere of outside influ-
ence, is practically neutral territory
and is in strict communication with
the respective capitals? Lnevitch
and Oyama confronting each other
upon the field where they are found
could arrange the preliminaries. Once
the main principles as to the indem-
nifty, the status of Sakhalin and Vlad-
ivostok and the question of the Russian
ships in neutral waters in the Far
East are adjusted, all other questions
| could be easily settled.