River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-30
END OF THE WAR
SOUGHT BY ALL
PEACE LIKELY TO BE DECLARED
WITHIN SIX WEEKS.
NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY
Conferences Already Held-Czar Said
to Have Terms of Japan of Such
Nature That Russia
Can Agree.

st. Petersburg. March 27.-The cry
stop the war;" is increasing. The
folly and futility of carrying hostilities
further are admitted by financiers
bankers, merchants, and, indeed, BY
the majority of military men. The
latter foresee the inevitable loss o.
Kirin, which would add hundred fol6
to the difficulties of maintaining the
army. 1t is loudly asserted that the
time to make peace was after Lao
yang, or as this opportunity was
missed, after Mukden. 1t is feared
another disaster is impending, and il
! is believed this would render the sit.
uation hopeless, leaving Hardin anG
Vladivostok at the mercy of the Jap
anese.
Peace Likely in Six Weeks.
st. Petersburg, March 27.-The in
formation contained in dispatches for
over week regarding the change in
Emperor Nicholas attitude concern
ing the advisability of making pacific
proposals to Japan is fully confirmed,
and in very high quarters peace with
in six weeks is regarded as certain.
The positiveness with which this is
affirmed would indicate that the gov
eminent is already in possession OF
information as to the Japanese terms
which indicate basis to which Russia
can agree. The exact situation is
Shrouded in mystery. The secret OF
what has been done and what is being
done is zealously guarded.
Pourparlers in Progress.
It is reported, however, from a
source close to the throne that pour
,parlers are actually in progress in
Paris, but possibly only of a prelim-
mary character, and that Copenhagen
may be the scene of the first exchanges
between representatives of the two
powers. In this connection impor-
lance is being attached to the visit of
M. D'Iswolsky, Russian minister at
Copenhagen, and Baron Rosen, for
mer Russian minister to Japan, to
M. Bompard, the French ambassador
to Russia, on Tuesday. The parties
to this conference refuse to admit that
significance is attached to it. In the
meantime the foreign Office is silent.
Powers Urge Gear to End War.
In this connection it is said that
practically all Europe has lately urged
Emperor Nicholas to make peace, the
king of Portugal being the latest to
make an appeal. This pressure from
Europe, together with the military and
financial reverses, appears to have in
fiuenced Emperor Nicholas to try to
secure some acceptable settlement.
One of Japan's Conditions.
Paris, March 27.-It is stated in
diplomatic quarters here that among
the conditions of peace which Japan
might ask would be that + ssia give
a pledge to build no more warships
| for term of years. A diplomatic, Off
i cial said that such a condition would
! be the most effective means of assur-
ing Japan against Russia's carrying
out her cherished project of naval re-
armament for the renewal of hoStilities
under better conditions than those at
present existing 1t is we'll known that
Russia cOntemplates huge plan of
naval rehabilitation. Admiral Doub-
asoff, the head of the chemical board
of the admiralty; Capt. Clado, for
merly chief tactical officer under Vice
Admiral Rojestvensky, and other Rus
| sian naval authorities recently have
taken the position that peace was de-
sirable until naval reconstruction
could be completed. This appears to
have stimulated Japan's diplomats to
| IF
that would be equiv alent to no more
than truce during which Russia
would have time to forge an effective
weapon, and therefore the intimation
is now given that limitation of Rus
sian naval armament may figure as a
means of ensuring a prolonged peace
in the Orient
Ministers Are Agreed.
| London, March 27.-A ST. Petersburg
dispatch to the Reuter- Telegram COM
pany states that the majority of the
council of ministers agreed on the
principal of the opportuneness of in
itiating steps in the direction of peace,
and correspondents in the principal
European capitals all report that
peace is in the air
According to arrangements which
are still liable to revision, King Ed
ward will leave London on April 6.
He will join Queen Alexandra at
Cologne, and from thence their males
ties will go to Copenhagen for the
celebration of the birthday of King
/ Christian April 8. A correspondent at
Copenhagen telegraphs that so far as
known King Edwards visit has no
connection with Russo-Japanese peace
pour parlers, but that King Christian
strongly favors peace, and should the
dowager empress of Russia also come
to her fathers birthday celebration it
will be regarded as signal of peace
conference at Copenhagen.
War Office Answers Criticisms.
Stung by the wholesale criticism
lately heaped upon the war Office for
its unpreparedness and incapacity in
providing the Manchurian army with
men. guns and munitions, the army
organ Saturday laid bare what has
been done since the opening of hos
tilities giving the exact figures. From
these it appears that up to March IL
the war Office had dispatched 13.087 Of
Presbyterians at War.
Over two per cent of the membership
| IF the PRESBYTERIAN cF -.rch in Japan