Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-09
PEACE NOW IMMINENT
st. Petersburg Planning
Wisely for Announcement.
PREPARING THE PUBLIC.
STATEMENT BEING TIMED WITH
NOTICE FOR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Believed Japan Has Stayed oyama's
Operations Pending Result Of
. Negotiations.

ST. PETERSBURG, June o., 11:35 a M
The government is plainly preparing the
public for the announcement that the en-
peror has decided to conclude peace and
that the negotiations have begun by per-
mitting the publication of all the foreign
dispatches bearing the subject. The
newspapers and the Russian public, how
ever. have until now had only a suspicion
that important moves were going on behind
the scenes.
In well informed circles it is believed that
Japan already has instructed Field Marshal
Oyama to stay his hand, pending the result
of the present tentative negotiations, and
that Gen. Linevitch also has been conf
IDENTIFY advised of the situation. Neverthe-
less, the rreconcilable remnants of the war
party are believed to be urging the Rus
sian commander r-in-chief to assume the Of
fensive in the hope of achieving victory
and thus change the emperor's present dis
position in favor of conclusion of hOStili-
ties
If such an intrigue is in progress 1t has
no chance of success. 1t can be assumed
that there will be no further bloodshed in
Manchuria until the beligerents have de-
cided whether it is possible to agree
on peace terms.
An Assembly of the People.
The government IN the present emergency
is acting with great wisdom. 1t is prepar-
ing to time the proclamation of a national
assembly with the announcement that
peace negotiations have begun The COM
mittee of ministers is hurrying through its
examina ton of the Bouligin rescript COM
missions project for the Gosudarstvennai
Duma, Imperial Duma" scheme, already
outlined in these dispatches, it's consider
alton having commenced yesterday and con-
tinuing today.
Practically no alterations are being made
in the text. and the Associated Press learns
from a prominent Russian statesman con-
versant with the situation that the review
of the Bouligln commission project is pure
ly formal as a manifesto prOmulgating a
lawing giving the Russian people voice in
legislation is already drafted The inform
ant of the Associated Press claims 10 have
seen the original, and he expects the law
TO be proclaimed early next week.
Evidence accumulates tnat President
Roosevelts efforts in behalf of peace have
been supported by practically every Euro
pean power by the transmission through
their representatives at the bellgerents' re-
spective capitals that it is the solemn con-
viction of their respective governments that
the time has arrived for the warning coun-
tries to conclude peace.
Roosevelt's Endeavors.
The Presidents endeavors seem limited
TO bringing the plenipotentaries of Russia
and Japan together to arrange the prelim-
mary terms for the conclusion of = limited
armistice and the selection of a place for
the future negotiations, and the plenipo-
tentiaries, in the opinion of the diplomats,
Will make the next move. as 1T is not be-
Ieved Japan will dfvulge her terms until
the plenipotentiaries meet. The ambassa-
dor OF one of the great European powers
expressed the opinion to the Associated
Press that the exchanges would not occur
either at Washington at any European
capital, but upon the battlefield in Man
churia
Both Russia and Japan desire to conduct
the negotiations Direct said the ambassa-
dor. Where is there better place than
Manchuria, which is beyond the sphere OF
outside influence, is practically neutral ter
ritory, and is in direct communication with
the respective capitals? Linevitch and
Oyama confronting each other upon the
field where they fought could arrange the
preliminaries- Once the main principles as
to the indemnity, the status of Sakhalin and
Vladivostok and the question of the Rus
sian ships in neutral waters in the far east
are adjusted all other questions could
easily be settled.