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Nicholas Then Goes to Hohen5ollern and
Stays Two and Half Hours.
NO MINISTER OF tl1HtR IS PRESENT
kuscOvite Wants Opinion Of TeutOn on
international Situation.
PEACE TERMS PROBABLY DISCUSSED
Rumor from Berlin that Russia Will
Oner 60 Assume Japan's War
Debt in Lieu of In
demntty.

ST PETERSBURG, July A-EmperOr
Nicholas has returned to Peterhof
The marshal Of the Court Count Beuc-
kendorff. has sent the following from the
island Of Bjorkoe:
At 10 O'Clock in the evening Of July %
the German imperial yacht Hohenzollern
dropped anchor near the anchorage of the
Russian imperial yacht Polar Star. EN-
peror William accompanied by Prince Al
bert OF Schleswig- Holstein and his suite
William was received at the head of the
ladder by Emperor Nicholas and Grand
Duke Michael and cordial greetings were
the guard Of honor and the yachts crew
and the two suites were presented; atter
which their majesties retired to the sa-
At II o'elock at night Emperor Nicholas
and Grand Duke Michael accompanied Eln-
peror William TO the Hohenzollern, Where
they remained until l:SO in the morning.
How Meeting was Arranged.
BERLIN, July 2-The Foreign office here
is advised that a meeting between Emperor
William and Emperor Nicholas took place
early today on the Swedish coast near the
Island OF Bioerkoe.
Emperor Nicholas wrote to Emperor
william several days ago that IT, during the
latter's yachting in the Baltic, he should
approach the Russian shore he emperor
Nicholas) would be pleased to meet him.
The German emperor replied that he would
and the Island OF Bjoerkoe was selected.
II was understood that the conversation
was to be entirely personal and intimate
and therefore no minister of either govern
ment was to be present although the Rus
sian minister of marine is in Emperor
Nicholas suite. The meeting is a sequence
TO the correspondence sthst has been going
on between the two emperors concerning
peace in which Emperor William urged
Emperor Nicholas to take steps toward
peace Emperor William was then co-op-
Grating with President Roosevelt in seek
ing 70 bring the beligerents to discus
sion Of the terms OF peace and in the pres
ent meeting the Associated Press is au-
thoritatively informed, Emperor William
will continue to advise peace, should the
Russian emperor ask for his further views
and n tso1ld' be Ytryr natural that En-
peror Niehoias should do 50 as a develop
ment OF the correspondence which has al
ready taken place.
William Advises Reform.
Emperor william went to the meeting, as
the Associated Press is officially Informed.
prepared TO say II he were asked that he
thought Emperor Nicholas could attain a
full understanding and reconciliation with
the discontented portions of his people
only through reforms The German gov
ernment is interested in having the neigh
boring countries peaceful and prosperous.
for II IL toward the Russian empire that
Germany's manufacturers look for great
trade expansion in the future.
The German emperor is most reluctant
to have either the Russians or others think
that he Is volunteering suggestions regard
ing the internal affairs OF Russia. He is
not doing so, but will only give his per-
sonal Views on their being asked for En-.
N..TV.
regarding the Russian situation and may
be able % give Emperor Nicholas state
ments OF fact and deductions from then
that are unknown TO the Russian emperor
So far as the rumors in other capitals tha
a scheme is afoat OF several of the powers
in giving Russia moral support agains
Japan in the negotiations soon to be opened
at Portsmouth, N H., concerning German!
they are denied explicitly. Germany's pol
icy of noninterferenoe, 1t is declared. re
mains the same.
The meeting OF the two emperors tool
place on the initiative of Emperor Nicholas
The prevailing idea is that the Russial
emperor desired an outside opinion from
ruler Of his own rank on the internal sit
uation In Russia. His invitation to EN-
peror william Is regarded as being III
result OF friendship and confidence in him
Although the meeting is considered as be
ing OF high Importance for Russia, it can
not signify any change In Germany's poll
cles toward Japan or Russia.
Emperor William had not seen the Rus
sian emperor since the autumn Of 1903, a
Weisbaden. The German emperor wen
within easy distance of ST. Petersburg be
cause Il would be impolitic for Empero
Nicholas TO leave the country and Wis
German waters.
Russia May Assume Debts.
The Lokal AnEeiger today says that Ru'
STA may propose to Japan to take over a
its war loans In lieu of indemnity n
Whites interviews In Paris are connecte
with such plan, and the visit Of HeI
Ernst won Mendelssohn. head Of Russia
principal bankers in Berlin, to ChancellC
Won Buelow Is supposed 70 be on the SAN
basis.