The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1905-06-22
Russia Has Finally and Definite
iy Accepted Washington as
the Meeting Place.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT NOTIFIED
Deiligerent Nations Have Tentatively
Decided to Each Appoint Three
PlenipotentiarIss te Confer.
N. Nelidon Has Already Accepted IN.
Chslrmanship Of the Russian Mis-
/ sion--conferenoe To Convene
the Middle Of August

Washington. June i7.-Alone on the
plains OF Manch1ria. midway between
the two sreat armies. the Russian ana
Japanese commanders viii meet 10
siEn the armistice which VIII nave tha
way Tor the Washington conference n
the present tentative program Is fol.
lowed
81 Petersburg. June is-Russla ha.
finally and definitely accepted wash
ingson as the meeting place OF the
Russian and japanese pieuipotrnti..
ries. the foreign once having ~aived
US request for reconsideration AZ the
personal direction of the emperor
whose desire TO give the fullest and
fairest opportunity to President Roos.-
relts proposal Tor a peace conference
is thereby manifested.
After his conference with Amh,s...
dor Meyer Count Lamsdorn. the for.
eign minister. went Saturday night 10
Peterhoff and laid the matter before
the emperor. who. on learning that in.
sistance on The Hague mIght endan.
ger the negot iations. directed Couat
lamsdorn to inform Ambassador M.v.
or that Russia would accept Wash.
ington.
Il was after midnight when the for.
eign minlster returned from PeterhoN
but Ambassador Meyer was forti.with
notified and cipher dispatch was pre-
pared and sent 20 the state depar,-
ment at Washington az an early hour
Sunday morning Count IAmsdorn
Sunday afternoon issued a public an
nouncement Of the selection OF Wash.
ington. The result Is looked upon a.
decided triumph for American dipio-
macy.
In certain quarters here envy and
Jealousy Of the United States are M.
concealed. The entire collapse OF the
negotiations was predicted SATURDAY
and there was almost open exultation
al what vas declared to be a -rebun
30 Roosevelt
Washington, June l9.-Russla and
Japan have tentatively decided each
70 appoint three plenipotentiaries to |
represent them In the Washington con.
ference N. Nelidon. Il IL understood
mas already accepted the chalrmanship /
ot the Russian mission. and Is being /
consulted about selection Of his asso- i
ciates. but Washington has not yet
heard whether Marquis Ito's health |
VIII permit him 10 come as the rank. /
Ing Japanese pienipotentiary The be.
lief here is that Field Marshal Yama.
gata viii be designated m Ito's place
should the marquis be unable 10 ac-
cept Il Is expected that the confer.
enee viii convene here about the mid.
die OF August.
PENDING the Official announcement
II the plenipotentiaries little progress
.oward the arrangement OF an armIs-
ice Is being attempted on either side
Z Is improbable. however. that she
would Insist on Russia making the re-
iuest Il is generally expected that
when the missions have been announc-
"a the president will suggest TO the
'elhgerents the advisability OF a lin
ted truce and that this suggestion
viii be accepted. Instructions will
hen go TO Linevitch and Oyama 10
agn the armistiee.
The whole question Of an armistica
las been Informally discussed al the
White house. and the belief in aiplo.
natic circles is that there will NOT d.
} hitch on this score.