The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1905-06-08
The Russian Press and the Public
Receive President ROosevelt's
Offer With Favor.
They WANT An HONORABLE PEACE
The Negotiations, II Begun. Must BE
Direct Without Any Intervention
by the Other Powers.
Japan Will Be Disposed To Grant Bet.
ter Terms To the Russian People
Than To the eureauersts
Who Began the War.

Washington. June S.-The president
ttrucN blow for peace IN the far east.
IN conference al the white house
with Count Cassinl the Russian am.
passador. the president expressed the
earnest hope that Russia would forth.
Win conclude peace With Japan. Pro
lonsation OF the war. he believes. will
rot result in victory for the Russian
arms and can only serve to Increase
Japan's demands and render more DIFF
hcuit the drafting OF a treaty OF peace
when the car as well as the mikado
can sign. The president smoke. he
said. as the friend OF Russia no less
than Of Japan. and on behalf not only
OF the Washington government. but in
the interest OF humanity. Untn his
words have reached Tsarsko-SeIo and
nave been communicated to Emperor
Nicholas In the friendly spirit in which
they were uttered. their effect can not
De estimated. Soon after reaching his
embassy Count Cassinl began the prep
"ration OF a dispatch to his govern
ment. Neither at the white house nor
a. the Russian embassy could a formal
statement regarding the conference be
obtained
ST. Petersburg. June 5.-President
Roosevelt's tender Of his good Offices
70 bring about peace Is received with
general favor in the press and by the
public and q desire that come steps
should be taken towards securing ar
honorable peace Is Increasingly mani
fest.
Inc Russian declares that the presi-
Gent should be commended as an act
OF friendship tending to bring about
'apans terms Of peace and Russia's
acceptance OF an offer which would
not mean surrender on humllating
terms. The paper maintains at the
same time that negotiations. II begun.
must De direct and that there must be
DO intervention by other powers.
lhe Bourse Gazette says that Russia
must make the best possible use OF the
friendly Offices OK the United States
and Great Britain.
mis- paper. as well as the Syntoch-
estVa and the Nashazvisn and others
advance the idea that Japan will be
disposed To grant better terms to the
russian people than 70 the bureau
eFais who began the war These pa
pers reiterate the demand for a zem-
SKY tabor TO settle the question. Even
the Greshdinin declares peremptoriiy
Tor peace. the Novoe Vremya alone
dissenting from the general chorus by
saying that the peace Is. not 30 essen
ual as foreign and internal enemies"
lmaglne. and Fietasing Great Britain.
the United States and the continental
powers as beginning to tremble IN face
OF the yellow peril"
Toxic, June adm. Yamamoto.
m'nister OF the navy. has dispatched
nowers for the room Of Rr. Adm. Roj-
estFensky. Accompanying the towers
was a letter to the wounded Russian
officer saying:
beg 70 express nay RESPECTS for
yeu 10 discharging your duty like a
soldier in nght;nS desperately for the
sake o. your fasheriand. can not ~
ffain frosa sympathiziRs with Won IN
Your wounded conditions and Ro,c r..
accommodations OF our bospi. Al and
ahilsty Of our naval surgeons Win ecne
yoqs suffering and speedily rsstars