New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-05

What Kuropatkin Proposed before
War-A Roosevelt Statuette.
Especial by Trench Gable to The Tribune1
lc.cr,,,-ieht 1901 by The Tribune AssociatIon.l

! fcopvr4Rht 1905 by The Tribune Associationl
| Paris. March 4-The mas ses of the French
| people are becoming impatient of the delay on
| the part of Russia to give French diplo-
macy a chance to use its good ofnces
| to bring about reasonable basis OF peace
! negotiations the conviction here being that
| the longer Russia maintains the struggle the
| worse will be her opportunity of securing
acceptable terms So far there is not the slight
| est official encouragement at st. Petersburg or
Paris to hope for speedy peace, although great
significance is to-day attached to the fact that
Count LamsdorT has taken pains to communi-
cate to the Paris Temps a secret report on
Manchuria drawn up before the outbreak of
| hostilities by General Kuropatkin. when Min
lister of War. This confidential report, which
was made directly to the Emperor strenuously
urged the necessity of avoiding war, for which
Russia was unprepared. The report concludes
with five questions, each of which is answered
by General Kuropatkin emphatically in the
negative and supported by the weight of teen
meal reasons. The five points are: ID Does
Russia need any other Pacific port besides Via
divostok? 90 Is it wise for Russia to become a
maritime power? CD Does Manchuria enter into
the Russian sphere of influence in the Far East?
a. Would Manchuria add to the military
strength and commercial wealth of Russia? 90
Is it Russia's interest to prevent Japan from es
tablishing herself on the continent? General
Kuropatkin, in this confidential report, urges
as the only practical solution for Russia TO seek
by diplomatic means and a frank understand
ing with Japan to exchange Port Arthur and
the railway from Hardin to Port Arthur. and all
adjacent territory for that strip of Chinese ter
rtory between Hardin and Pograntchnaia
which the VIadivostok railway traverses that
is, for Northern Manchuria, Russia thus aban-
dOning all Southern Manchuria to China. Cen
eral Kuropatkin also submitted TO the En-
peror that of the foreign alliances in the Far
East the most useful to her would be that Of
the United States.
Adrian Hebrard Editor of the Temps" has
caused this hitherto unpublished confidential
report of Kuropatkin to be given prominence
in the Temps" That it should be thus d.
vulged by the Russian Foreign Office at the
present moment causes belief in the best in
formed diplomatic circles here that General
Kuropatkin's proposals, made when he was
Minister of War, after his return from a visit
to Manchuria, now mark the first sincere at
tempt by Russia to suggest basis for the dis
cusson of peace.
"L'Enfant Roi," lyric comedy in five acts by
the late Emile lola, the music by Alfred Bru-
neau, was successfully produced last night at
the Opera Comique 1t contains some highly
captivating airs and is the story of mothers
love for her Legitimate son, secretly born be-
fore her marriage The husband a Paris baker,
finally pardons his wfe's fault and adopts the
son. There are capital scenes in the Tuileries
Gardens, with choruses of children and realistic
episodes of the interior of Paris bakeries with
descriptive recitatives and musical dialogues.
The critics pronounce it NJ. Bruneau's finest
work.
Frederick MacMonnies. the sculptor, is just
putting the finishing touches at his studio at
Giverny to equestrian statuette of President
Roosevelt Rough Rider, made at the re-
quest of a group Of the Presidents intimate
friends which will be cast in bronze and
presented TO the President as soon as possible
after the inauguration The sculptor, to whom
President Roosevelt lent his khaki uniform
worn in Cuba a model has depicted the
President mounted a splendid charger in fine
! action. The galloping horse is supported by a
shield bearing the Stars and Stripes with the
motto wi VIRTUE Vir." Mr. MacMonnies re-
CARDS this as one of the best works he has ever
done.
The Paris Jockey Club has elected it's sixth
American member in the person Of Frank Riggs
OF New-YOrk, the other five being Henry Ridge
way Charles Carroll, Augustus Jay, II. De Cour-
cey Forbes and Colonel Mccall The orders for
automobiles continue TO come from Americans
w. K. Vanderbilt jr, bought GO-horsepower
Mercedes, in which he left Paris for Nice on
Wednesday, and has ordered also a 4O-horse-
power Mors w. K. Vanderbilt, sr. has bought
| a 2S-horsepower Mercedes, Albert r. Shattuck a
2+horsepower Panhard, Henry F. Shoemaker a
4O-horsepower Mercedes. S. w. Austin of Phil
adephia, 35-horsepower Panhard, and Louis
Sherry 4O-horsepower Bodice
The excavations in search of the remains Of
John Paul Jones, which still continue have in
| cited Partisan psychologists to begin digging
| for the remains Of Duguay Trouin. the famous
| French admiral and destroyer of English com
! merce in the reign of Louis XIV at the end OF
! the seventeenth century, which are supposed to
! have been buried in the churchyard of St Roch
c. l. B.