Salt Lake Herald | 1904-11-09 | Page 1 | Russia Will Not Participate

RUSSIA PARTICIPATE Peace Proposal Finds Small Favor Favorat at St Petersburg so Long as the War in inS S East Lasts S SS SS S S I I 5 O I S has Charge dAj faires Eddy the for fora a second at The Hague to proceed with the 1 gun in 1899 especially relating rights and duties of neutrals and like the bombardment of m defended coast towns left undecided by the former conference The is understood takes pains to avoid the S of desiring to wound the susceptibilities of Russia the action ot the United States ed by the Initiative of the St Louis peace conference S S SNo No response has et been made but there Is strong reason to that Russia cannot show offenseS at the proposition the United States at this time inasmuch as the United States was actually at war S t the original conference Russia will tie dine to participate so long as the war lasts At the foreign omee the opInion been that a conference after the wat would be profitable enabling the powers to agree upon many vexed problems but that it Is Impossible for RussIa to during the war in ina a conference whose tendencies will be beto to limit the activity of belligerents and which questions with a beating upon the present struggle are sure to come up for discussion The emperor left St this afternoon for Vilna and Poland to bid farewell to the troops He will be gone gonea a week A local paper prints a letter review reviewIng Ing the voyage of the Second Pacific squadron in which the statement Is made that three torpedo boats seem seemIngly on hostile intent were seen off the Spanish coast during the night of Oct 26