Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-06-30
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.

in MancnuTld'
st. Petersburg, June 27.-Negotia-
lions 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
nose that it is some time during the
first week or 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 day or two, as the diplomatic
mills of Russia grind slowly and the
foreign office, as one Of the secretaries
nut it, 'is not used to hustling, Ameri-
can methods" but it is thought that
the date will De satisfactory, as it Wa
give ample time for Nelidptf, the Rus
sian ambassador at Paris, 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 RooseveIts 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 Min
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 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 tn'
Japanese army, which it places iron
$4,000 to 100000 men, including thu
forces operating in Korea. In the nv
Japanese armies opposing Genera
Linevitch, exclusive Of cavalry ant
artillery, it estimates that there ar
from 43O 900 to 450, 900 bayonets, whicl
give Field Marshal Oyama decides
numerical superiority over tn
strength usually allotted to Linevitcn'
army. The Japanese forces, 1t says
are divided as follows:
General Kuroki, $4,000 to 2OO,OO
bayonets; General Oku, 10000 to lib
900 bayonets; General Nogi, $4,000 I
10000 bayonets; General Nodzu, 45,OO
bayonets; General Kawamura, f5'Oo
to $4,000 bayonets.
The Novoe Vremya points to an II
terview which it's correspondent
Paris had with a Japanese diploma
who says that while nobody outside
the emperor of Japan and his prlnclps
advisers is yet in possession OF Jal
ans terms, he believes that they al
moderate and will be acceptable II
adds that Japan is anxious to conciuu
a lasting peace, but her atti,ude is ne
Influenced by the slightest doubt as
her financial ability to continue I'd
war, she having anticipated niue
longer and more difficult period
hostilities.