Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-03-29
RUSSIA NOW
WANTS PEACE.
French Minister, Mr.. DelCasse
Asked to Mediate to That End
Has Had Enough.
WASHINGTON ASSISTS.

LONDON, March 29.-The latest anu
apparently the most definite. move to
ward peace on the part of Russia Is
that country's request to NJ. Deleasse
the French minister for foreign af
fairs, to act as intermediary between
the car and the mikado. The French
statesman has signified his willing
ness, but is, however, convinced OF the
necessity of working in unison WITH
Lord Lansdowne, the British foreign
minister.
A special dispatch from st. Peters
burg says that Russia has outlined
the conditions under which she is pre-
pared to negotiate peace, and it is now
stated with every semblance Of au'
thority that, thanks to the good offices
of the United States and France, the
question of peace had assumed practi.
cal shape.
From the japanese left armies comes
a report that the army near Mukden is
clearing the battlefield, sorting the
enormous quantities of Russian stores
and materials captured and attending
to the prisoners.
The value Of the captured war mate
rial is placed at 81 ,750,000.
Engineers are rapidly repairing the
railroad bridge across the Hun river.
Trains are now running to the Hun.
They will reach Mukden in a few days.
While peace rumors multiply the in
terror situation in Russia is growing
worse rapidly. Incendiary fires have
been started in the widely separated
towns Of Baku, Mini Novgorod and
Yalta, and armed bands of peasants
are numbering and pillaging on all
sides.
SO serious is the situation that Rus
sian imperial As fell a point on the
st. Petersburg bourse.
A Baku (Caucasia) dispatch says that
the works Of the Mantacheff Petroleum
company and the Baku Petroleum
works at Bibiebat are on fire.
A report From Mini Novgorod, mid
die Russia, says that a fire at the
Mazoute grain depots has caused
heavy losses, estimated at hundreds
of thousands of rubles. The flames
threaten to spread to the shipping.
At Yalta, Crimea, southern Russia.
the town has been set on fire five
times, the prison was burned to the
ground and all the police stations were
wrecked.
Warships were sent to Yalta yester-
day, and marines landed there as III in
a hostile country. =. -tt
A meeting held there was attended
by thousands of workmen who adopt
ed a resolution to petition the throne,
first, for abrogation of laws limiting
civil rights; second, free speech; third,
freedom of the press; fourth, the right
to strike; fifth, liberty of conscience;
sixth, equal rights for all nationalities
and religions; seventh, immediate con
clusion Of peace with Japan, and
eighth, popular representation in the
constituent assembly.
The troops are arriving there from
Simperfol to Quell the riots.
Disturbances in the Caucasus con.
tinue. A gendarme was killed at Pot.
ten people have been wounded at Gori
while at Suchum the police are power
less to keep order. In the Shorapan
district the peasants refuse to pay
taxes or rent and have elected a Sc
cret committee to manage local affairs
Baron Won Nolken, the chief Of pc
lice of Warsaw, who was wounded b,
the explosion of "A bomb on Sunday, i
improving. He received 100 separat
wounds. cuts and scratches.