Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-06-11
RUSSIAN EMPEROR
IN FAVOR OF PEACE
War Party, However, Hopes he
viii Continue Struggle.
JAPANESE TERMS ARE UNKNOWN
Psnipotentlarlss May Meet Upon the
Battlefield IN Manehuris to Discuss
Articles Of Peaee-EnSand Satisfied
With ROoseveIt's Acts.

81. Petersburg, June s.--l1:35 a.
m.-The government is plainly prepar-
ing the public for the announcement.
that the emperor has decided to con.
elude peace and that the negotiations
have begun by permitting the publica
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 we're going on behind the
scenes. In well informed circles it,
is believed that Japan already has in
structed Field Marshal Oyama TO stay
his hand pending the result Of the
present tentative negotiations and that
General LneYitch also has been conn
dentially advised OF the situation. New
ertheless the irreconciliable remnants
Of the war party are believed TO be
urging the Russian commander.in-chief
10 assume the offensive in the hope
OF achieving victory and thus change
the emperor's present disposition In
favor Of the conclusion Of hostilities.
II such an intrigue 10 In progress,
Il has no chance OF success. II can
be assumed that there will be no fur.
Their blOodshed in MAnchuriS natst'tbe
bellieerents have decided whether II
Is now possible to agree on peace
terms. The government in the pres
ent emergency is acting with great wis
dom.
II is preparing to time the proclama-
ton OF a national assembly with the
announcement that peace negotiations
have begun. The committee OF min.
listers IL hurrying through its examina-
ton OF the Bouligsn rescript commits
sions project for the Gosdarstvennaia
Duma. imperial duma. the plan already
outlined In these dispatches, Its 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 commissions
project IL purely formal as h manifesto
FORMULATING law giving the Russian
people a voice In legislation Is already
drafted The informant Of the Asso-
ciaied Press claims 10 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
~ By every Euro pean power by the
Transmission through their representa-
tlves that Il 10 the solemn conviction
uf their respective governments thai
. the time has arrived for the warrinG
countries to conclude peace. The pres
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4 the pIeniDotentiaries Of Russia and
Japan together 10 arrange the prellm-
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