The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-03-30
PEACE is ASSURED
Japs and Russians to End
Hostiiities in Six Weeks.
REPORT SEEMS VERIFIED
Agents Of Russia and Japan Said to
Have Held Informal Preliminary
conferenees-situation, How.
ever, is Being Guarded.


A st. Peterburg's dispatch says {:
The information contained in these
dispatches for over a week regarding
the change in Emperor Nicholas at
titude concerning the advisability of
making a pacific proposal to Japan is
fully confirmed and in very high quar-.
ters peace within six weeks is re.
garded as certain. The positiveness
with which this is affirmed would in
dicate that the government Is already
In possession OF information, as the
japanese terms would indicate a ba-
sis which Russian can agree to.
The exact situation Is shrouded In
mystery. The secret Of what has been
, done and what Is being done is zeal
ously guarded The Associated Press
hears, however, from q source close
to the throne that pour parleurs are
actually in progress in Paris, but pos
sibly only of a preliminary charac-
ter, and that Copenhagen may be the
scene of the. first exchanges between
representatives of the two powers.
In this connection Importance is be-
ing attached to the visit Of M. DIS
wolsky, Russian minister at Copenha-
gen, and Baron Rosen, former Rus
sian minister to Japan, eo Bombard,
the French ambassador to Russia, on
Tuesday. The parties to this confer
ence refuse to admit that significance
Is attached to it. In the meantime,
the foreign Office is silent.
Inquiry, says q Paris special, tends
to confirm strongly the statement al
ready made that approaches toward
peace have begun at q private confer.
ence in a northern European capital.
In view Of the statement from ST..
Petersburg that pour parleurs were
going on in Paris, the Associated Press
Saturday night called at the Russian
embassy and the Japanese legation.
Ambassador Nelidoff stated specifcal-
" that he knew nothing about such
negotiations being in progress, and
Minister Montono, while declining to
discuss the general question OF peace,
authorized the statement that no pour
parleurs were occurring in Paris. At
the foreign office 1t was also stated
that officials there were not aware OF
steps toward peace.
The foregoing statements by Count
NsnsoH and DR.. Montono, while indi-
eating that negotiations are not pro-
ceeding in Paris. do not alter the
main statement that peace prelimina-
ries are actually progressing else
where.
The parsonage acting for Russia in
the preliminary stage Of the negotia-
tions is described as "a leading gene
rat."-
The parsonage acting for Japan is
not disclosed, but he is believed to
be one who has heretofore taken; no
prominent part in Japanese affairs.
It is stated in French diplomatic
quarters that among the conditions OF
peace which Japan might ask would
be that Russia give a pledge to build
no more warships for term OF years.
A diplomatic official said that such
a condition would be the most erect
i've means Of assuring Japan against
Russia's carrying out her cherished
woject of naval rearmament for the
renewal Of hostihties under better con-
dittons than those at present exist
Ing.
It IS we'll known that Russia con-
templates a huge plan OF naval rena'
bilitation.
This appears to have stimulated ia
pans diplomats to consider means OF
avoiding a peace that would be equiv
alent to no more than truce during
which Russia would have time to
forge an effective weapon, and, there
fore. the intimation is now given that
Limitation of Russian naval armament
NAV figure as a means Of ensuring a
-peo3onged peace in the Orient