Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-06-30
DATE OF PEACE NEEI
ENJOYS OF RUSSIA and IApn|
ASSEMBLE IN AUGUST
as to Date Conducts
Ambassador Meyer-Mlnisssr !,
Foreign Affairs in Russia Think. 4.
other Battle Will Soon B. Fo....
in Manehurla.

IN Manehurla.
st. Petersburg, June 27-Ne.,.
tons for the peace conference 7 "a.
taken an important step forwara NJ
proposition for the date Of the mss'
ing of the plenipotentiaries at ws.s
ington has been submitted ID Rns..
and is now under consideration IN
exact date proposed has not bean /.
certained, but there is reason Il IL,
pose that it is some time durinp ii.
first week or 10 days of August whln
is about the earliest period At VIVA
the Japanese ENJOYS could be exns~
ed to reach Washington, alIowrs
reasonable time for the acceptance
the proposal and the interchanee
the credentials of plenipotentiaries
The emperor's answer is not expe,,
ed for day or two, as the diplomat.
mills Of Russia grind slowly and M
foreign Office, as one of the secretarss
put it, sis not used to hustling. Amer
can methods" but it is thought th,t
the date will De satisfactory. as INV
give ample time for Nelidoff, the Rus
sian ambassador at Paris, or Other
Russian negotiators to reach wash.
ington, and there will be little Dre
liminary work for them to do when
the Japanese terms are submitted
Probably RooseveIt's Suggestion
Whether the proposal regarding IA
date originated at Toxic or at Wasa
ington can not be learned, but the fact
that the negotiations were conducted
through Ambassador Meyer may indi
cate that President Roosevelt has Der.
haps again stepped to the fore and
suggested to the two powers, neither
of whom would be willing to take The
initiative, a suitable date.
Ambassador Meyer is still exchang
ing communications with Foreign Ain-
lister Lamsdortf by letter, the minister
being confined to his apartments II
the ministry, but in his latest note,
written by his own hand, Count Lams
dorf expressed the hope that he would
have sufficiently recovered to permit
of personal exchanges Of views today
The minister's indisposition also pre-
vented him from receiving the GeF1
man, French and American amhassa
doris during the last few days.
M. Heratotf, assistant minister 81
foreign affairs and the spokesman d
the foreign Office, in an interview n
the Gazette, declares an armistce
pending the meeting Of the plenipo
tentiaries is improbable and he COM
ments on the possibility Of a battle
taking place before a conference
held.
Japanese Army Larger.
The Russky Invalid, the army OIL
gan, supplies an argument for peaca
in an estimate of the strength Of the
Japanese army, which it places from
$4,000 to 100000 men, including the
forces operating in Korea. In the five
Japanese armies opposing Genera
Linevitch, exclusive of cavalry and
artillery, it estimates that there arg
from 100000 to $50, 900 bayonets, which
give Field Marshal Oyama a decided
numerical superiority over ting
strength usually allotted to Lineyitehs
army. The Japanese forces, it says
are divided as follows:
General Kuroki, $4,000 to 100000
bayonets; General oku, 10000 to ll5I
600 bayonets; General Nogi, $4,000 g
10000 bayonets; General Nodzu, 45,OOv
bayonets; General Kawamura, 7S,OOg
to $4,000 bayonets.
The Novoe Vremya points to an ~
terview which its correspondent a
Paris had with a Japanese diplomat.
who says that while nobody outside q
the emperor of Japan and his principal
advisers is yet in possession OF Jap
ans terms, he believes that they ~
moderate and will be acceptable. ~
ADDS that Japan is anxious to concluag
lasting peace, but her atlltude Is no
influenced by the slightest doubt as y
her financial ability to continue tnS
war, she having anticipated a muel
longer and more difficult period 9
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