Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-07-01
DATE OF PEACE MEET
ENJOYS OF RUSSIA And JAPAN
ASSEMBLE In AUGUST.
Negotiations as to Date Conducted by
Ambassador Meyer-Minister of
Foreign Affairs In Russia Thinks An
other Battle Will Soon Be Fought
in Manchuria.

st. Petersburg, June 27.-Negotia-
tons for the peace conference have
taken an important step forward and
a proposition for the date of the meet
ing of the plenipotentiaries at Wash
ington has been submitted to Russia
and is now under consideration. The
exact date proposed has not been as
certained, but there is reason to sup
pose that it is some time during the
first week OF 10 days of August, which
IS about the earliest period at which
the Japanese ENJOYS could be expect
ed to reach Washington, allowing
reasonable time for the acceptance of
the proposal and the interchange of
the credentials of plenipotentiaries
The emperor's answer is not expect
ed for a day or two, as the diplomatic
mills of Russia grind slowly and the
foreign office, as one of the secretaries
put it, is not used to hustling, Ameri-
can methods" but it is thought that
the date will ne satisfactory, as it Wa
give ample time for Nelidon, the Rus
sian ambassador at Raris, or other
Russian negotiators to reach Wash
ington, and there will be little pre-
liminary work for them to do when
the Japanese terms are submitted.
Probably RooseVeIt's Suggestion.
Whether the proposal regarding the
date originated at TOXIC or at WASH
ington can not be learned, but the fact
that the negotiations were conducted
through Ambassador Meyer may indi-
cate that President Roosevelt has per
haps again stepped to the fore and
suggested to the two powers, neither
of whom would be willing to take the
initiative, a suitable date.
Ambassador Meyer is still exchang-
ing communications with Foreign nlin-
lister Lamsdorn by letter, the minister
being confined to his apartments In
the ministry, but in his latest note,
written by his own hand, Count Lams-
dorff expressed the hope that he would
have sufficiently recovered to permit
Of personal exchanges Of views today
The minister's indisposition also pre-
vented him from receiving the Ger
man, French and American ambassa
doris during the last few days.
M. Heraton, assistant minister OF
foreign affairs and the spokesman OF
the foreign office, in an interview in
the Gazette, declares an armistice
pending the meeting of the plenipo
tentiaries is improbable and he com
ments on the possibility of a battle
taking place before a conference is
held.
Japanese Army Larger.
The Russky Invalid, the army or
gan, supplies an argument for peace
in an estimate of the strength of the
Japanese army. which it places from
$4,000 to 100000 men, including the
forces operating in Korea. In the five
Japanese armies opposing Genera
Linevitch, exclusive of cavalry anC
artillery, it estimates that there are
from 43O 600 to 450, 900 bayonets, which
give Field Marshal Oyama a decided
numerical superiority over th'
strength usually allotted to Linevitchi
army. The japanese forces, it says
? are divided as follows:
General KuroH, $4,000 to 100000
bayonets; General Oku, 10000 to lis,
600 bayonets; General Nogi, $4,000 t.
10000 bayonets; General Nodzu, 1900
bayonets; General Kawamura, 1900
to $4,000 bayonets.
The Novoe Vremya points to an in
terview which it's correspondent a
Paris had with a Japanese diplomat
who says that while nobody outside o
the emperor of Japan and his principa
advisers is yet in possession Of jar
ans terms, he believes that they ar
moderate and will be acceptable. HI
adds that Japan is anxious to conclud
a lasting peace, but her atL,ude is no
/ Influenced by the slightest doubt as t.
her financial ability to continue tn
war she having anticipated a mucl
longer and more difficult period o
hostilities.