Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-25
PEACE PARTY in RUSSIA
SEES HOPE OF ENDING WAR

guarding the palace of Grand Duke
Alexis have arrested suspicious look
ing loiterer who was found to be car
rying bomb.
The grand duke, it is stated, has
gone abroad incognito for a fortnight.
For Compulsory Education.
st. Petersburg, March 20. The an
nouncement was made today that in
a fortnight the ministry of public in.
struction will undertake the elabora.
ton of a plan for a compulsory sys.
tenn of primary education.
New Loan Made.
Internal loans Of $100,O0O,o00 were
signed today. The price Of the issue
is bonds redeemable in fifty years.
Peasants Killed In Poland.
Ten peasants were killed and fifty
were wounded at Lanenta, Russian
Poland on Tuesday as the result of the
shooting Of infantry sent to quell the
disturbances there. Peasants from
Benignowa proceeded to Lamenta to
induce the farm laborers to strike and
rioting occurred
st. Petersburg, March, 49, - The
party within the government which is
urging to indicate to Japan, Russian
willingness to end the war If reason
able basis can be reached, as related
in the dispatches on March 20, has
been greatly encouraged the last, few
days, and an actual pacific proposal
may be just ahead. The subject has
occupied much Of the attention of the
conferences at Tsarkoe Se1o.
Certain grand dukes, supported by
General Sakharoff. the minister Of
war, Admiral Ayellan. the head Of the
admiralty, and what is known as the
war party, are still bitterly opposed
to the idea Of peace under present cir.
cumstances, but with the exception of
the ministers of war and marine, the
emperor's ministers, backed by NJ.
White. .solidly favor this course, and
the convincing arguments they offer
are telling. French influences in the
same direction are now being sup
ported by German opinion.
The rumor noted by the Associated
Press last week that Emperor William
had rendered his good Offices now
seems to be confirmed. The Asso.
ciated Press is in a position to assert,
however, that if Emperor Nicholas de-
cides to approach Japan it will be
through France, and that negotiations
will be conducted either between NJ.
Delcasse, the French foreign minister,
and DR.. Montono, the Japanese minis
ter at Paris, or NJ Harmand, the
French minister to Japan, and Count
Katsura, the Japanese premier at To.
kio.
The Russian government now feels
certain that Japan will not make the
first move, nor disclose her position
until overtures are made authorita-
lively In the Russian emperors name,
on the ground that he alone is capable
OF binding Russia. 1t Is quite possible
that Japan's attitude in this regard has
been exposed through unofficial at
tempts to ascertain terms. Japan, it
will be remembered, took the same po-
sition when Herr Detring, the German
commissioner of customs at Tien Tsin,
without plenary powers, sought to OBJ.
tain Japan's terms for ending the Chi.
no-Japanese war, declining to treat I'M.
til Lii Hung Chang, accompanied by
General John w. Foster, went to To.
kio clothed with full powers.
HostiIitles Would Continue.
Furthermore, In view Of the posi-
bility that no basis of agreement might
result. even should the emperor now
approach Japan with pacific proposals,
1t is regarded as entirely likely that
hostilities would continue, again fol
lowing the precedent of the Chino-Jap.
anese war, until negotiations ended.
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begun in December and peace was
concluded in the following April. Mean
while the Japanese made winter
campaign In Manchuria.
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