Show HIGHLY REGARDED BY BOTH SIDES I President Roose Roosevelt Picked as the Prop Proper Person to Act ct as Peace Maker When Russia and Japan apan Tire of Fighting I A Jan 6 has W V V made io o o Overtures for peace to Russia dirc directly r Indirectly through the United Stat s or or any ans Other ther pOwer and contemplates no o such action and DOW ilow that Port Arthur has fallen purposes to press the war In I Ithe the north all the more vigorouSly b by reinforcing the Japanese armies at Liao Yang with the greater part of bt the troops whIch have been besieging Port Arthur This in brIef represents the views or Of Mr the Japanese minis ter The fall or of Port Arthur saId the minister Is but a step in the war which Japan Is 15 waging for a principle Certainly It Is an important step but I could be fU from the truth than the that b because cause Ja Jai Ian i an has captured a stronghold the theaU fall aU of which has ha long been expected the JU now make overtures for peace Japan is too busy fighting We are as much in earnest today as we were at the out outset set act of the war We have made no n oyer tures ture for foy peace either or Jn in directly IlOr r have the powers ap approached u with any Idea of inter At the Russian embassy it was relt reit rated crated that Russia would tight fight aU all the thc harder in view ot of the temporary loss of Port Arthur Europe it Is learned is firmly firm of the conviction that however dark the out look for peace at this moment when the prospect brightens It Is to dent Roosevelt that the neutrals as aswell aswell well as the belligerents will look as the intermediary through pea peale e negotiations Will le c Initiated Initialed As all air European ambassador said today thC th American government n pl practically the only government to which both rents be e willing to look for or in rea it a s settlement when the time comes omes and aside from this fact tile the high personal regard in which the president Is held both at st Peler Petersburg burg and at Todo mates it aU all the more probable that through him then Russia and Jap n have hac fought their fight the powers must hope for reace |