Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-03-31
WAR STILL THE CRY
Russian Commission Reports
Against Peace Plans.
JAPANESE COLUMN At SITJASA
st. Petersburg Looking For n Move
From Washington or ~PEris-Pens-
ant RevOlutiOniAts Making
Trouble For Government.

TrOub1 For
LONDON, March 81. Dispatches
from ST. Petersburg say that the i'm
perial commission. under the presluen'
cy Of Grand Duke Nicholas Nlchoiale'
witch. which has been considering Tue
question of prosecuting the war, mas
completed its preliminary report ana
fnvors a continuation of the war.
The report says there is nothing Ill
the situation. either financial or mill
tary. TO prevent its prosecution.
4 special from st. Petersburg says
that Russia and Japan have selected
President Roosevelt as mediator to end
the war. that negotiations are already
in progress and that the suspension of
hostilities may shortly be expected.
The Washington dispatches are
scanned with especial eagerness. The
reports Of President Roosevelt's confer
enres with Minister Takahira and Am
bassadors .lusserand and Speck Won
Sternburg. in spite OF official denials.
are believed in diplomatic circles here
to relate TO the opening of negotiations.
The foreign Office continues to main
tain that Russia has taken no official
step, which certainly is literally true.
There is an important admission. how
ever. that Ambassador Jussprand upon
his w responsibility may have given
President Roosevelt the French idea of
ltussia's position.
In view of the peasant agitation
throughout the country some of the
newspapers are seriously alarmed at
the effect of the recent pastoral ad-
dress of the metropolitan of st. Pc
tersburg, NJ. Antonius, as being a di-
rect Indictment to the ignorant peas
ants TO begin Il war of determination
against the entire educated class. and
the papers are demanding that the
metropolitan and the holy synod, whose
mouthpiece it is assumed Antonius
was, take immediate measures TO coun-
teract the effect OF his statements.
A telegram from Sitiasa. M%anchuria,
says that Il japanese column. which is
probably carrying out II lanking move
ment. has been seen twenty-seven
miles northeast of S|ipinghai, seventy
four miles north Of Tie pass.
At st. Petersburg a man dressed as a
porter fired three revolver shots ut Il
secret police agent in Great Morskaia
street last night. All the shots missed
their aim. Tho assailant vas arrested.
A Tokyo dispatch says Russia's evil
den desire for peace is observable to
japanese statesmen he anc as to the
rest of the world. and they possess
good facilities to correctly estimate the
peace tendencies in responsible Rus
sian quarters. Japan knows that Rus
STA wants peace without indemnity,
without humiliation and without rig
orous terms, but it is clear that some
very substantial indemnity is ncceS-
sary as compensation for RuSSia's aus
ing Japan to engage in this costly war.
The land owners of the government
of Kharkov are almost panic stricken
ut the spread of rural disorders. and
many of them are deserving their es-
tates and flocking 10 the cities.
The peasants Of the Bolachoh dis
trict, in the government of Saratov.
are already discussing division of the
properties of the large proprictors.
Thousands of peasants have marched
through the town of Gori carrying red
flags and destroyed II number of shops.
The crowd also attacked u military pa
troll. %whereupon the soldiers fired a vol
ley. wOunding ten of the peasants, one
of whom has since died.
A Harbin dispatch says that Japanese
scouting parties arc actively cndcavor-
ing to pierce the screen Of the Russian
vanguard posts and develop the dispo-
sition and strength Of the positions
near Sipingllai.
Yesterday there was Il smart brush
where General Mistchcnk0 is stationed.
the Japanese pressing forward in IL
determined cndeayor to learn his
strength.