The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-26
KAISER'S EFFORTS FOR PEACE,
INDICED THE CZAR TO ACCEPT
ROOSEJELT'S SUGGESTION.
Also Used His influence for the selection OF
NJ. Witte a. EnvOy-French Comment
on tho Meeting OF Emperors-H
Witte Explained 1t to VI. Ronvier.

r" Special Gable Dispatches 10 THE SUN.
BERLIN. July 25.--Ihere is remarkable
reserve in the press and in official circles
regarding the interview between the Gar
and the Kaiser, but there is no concealment
OF satisfaction with the fact that the world
must recognize that the efforts made In
London and Paris to isolate Germany have
failed.
The Eossische Zeiiung repeats its appar-
emily inspired statement that the Kaiser
favors reforms and peace.
THE sun correspondent has obtained
from the highest sources confirmation OF
the fact that the Kaiser induced the Car
to accept President Roosevelt's proposals.
The Russian mission, and especially M.
witte. would never have been despatched
to Portsmouth, n. H., hut for the Kaiser's
advocacy as is known in Washington.
PARIS, July 25-The Temps says that
the initiative for the meeting betw cen the
Kaiser and the Gar came from the German
Government, which asked RUSSIA to inform
France Of the arrangement.
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF the
.Motin SAYS it il selni-oficially admitted that
the Gar was considerably astohished on
receiving telegram from the Kaiser in
wiling the Car 10 meet him.
The Echo de Paris, in an article on the
cause and probable consequences of the
meeting between the Car and the kaiser,
says:
civilian was thoroughly persuaded that
the meeting would give him great OPP
portunity for causing annoyance to France.
1t must therefore he logically concluded
that the feelings of William toward France
still bear the impress OF his notorious Ill
will toward us" The article concludes
IA follows: "We ought to he more watch
full for Germany pursues her anti-French
policy with remarkable tenacity and it Is
always the Anglo-French understanding
that Ia aimed at"
Jean Jaurts, in the HumdnHe, says:
when the Car accepted the invitation,
and thus resigned himself to the wounding
and disquieting of Great Britain. he en-
tered into q sort of alliance with Germany,
and those Of our politicians who have not
reckoned on the possibility of a Russo
German understanding have been building
imaginary edifices on the vcid,'
Gil Bias gives an account of the interview
between NJ. Witte, the Russian peace plepi-
potentiary, and Premier Rouvier. 1t says
, that NJ. Witte told the Premier of the
approaching meeting OF the Gar and the
German Emperor. Rouvier received the
information with marked ooldness. Witte
began to plead extenuating circumstances,
namely, that it was the German Emperor
who had taken the initiative, and that the
Car had no ground for refusing.
He declared that. according to his Sow
ereign's view, the meeting indicated no
change in the relations of France and Rus
sia. and that he had been authorized to make
this assurance in the ceareet and most
formal manner. Rouver, in reply, confined
himself to observing that the interview
between the two monarchs lnghthave taken
place more OPPORTUNITY at some other
time He added that the Gar, had doubtless,
! b zen guided by grave reasons, Of which he
| alone was competent to judge.
Prime Minister Rouvier had another con-
ference, lasting an hour, with M. Witte.
the Russian peace pemipotentiary, to-day.
LONDON, July rs. Armstrong, Whitworth
4 Co. deny the st. Petersburg report that
the firm is to construct shipbuilding works
at Riga for the Russian Government.
Among the latest guesses al to the object
of the meeting between the Kaiser and the
Car is one that the former sought to obtain
the contract for the building Of the Riga
works for Germans, possibly in return for
| loan