| Show PROSPECTS FOR PEACE BRIGHT War Will Win End if Japans Terms Are Not Too Harsh B FRANCE WILL NEGOTIATE NEG EMPEROR WILLIAM OFFERED TO TOt TOM t MEDIATE M T PETERSBURG March 23 1238 1233 ST S a st t m The party within the gov government government which is urging the em 1 J n rr r to indicate to Japan to end the tho war ar if i a rea rear r abIe basis can call be reached as re ref 1 f d in dispatches dIs on March 20 1 s been greatly encouraged the last i f days and an actual pacific proposal 3 Iut w l he e just ahead The subject has c much of ot the attention of or the f 4 at Certain fr Ijo and dukes supported by General the thc minister of war war Admiral v THun Han the head of the tile admiralty and hat is j known knon as the war party are aref f I ill bitterly opposed to the idea of ij 3 a r under tinder present circumstances but buti butth i ith th the exception of the ministers of ofir v ir Lr and aud marine the emperors minis t I r barked baked by hy M 11 Witte solidly favor favorI t I n ti I t ours and the convincing 3 I r rits they offer are arc telling French in InI 1 I Knew in the same sanle direction are arc now i supported by b German opinion Will Use France Tr T iH rumor noted by the Associated s last week wee It that Emperor William VIlli 41 tl tendered t cn red his good offices now t nis to be The rhe Associated irs no s is in a position to assert how vr fr f r that if iC Emperor Nicholas NI holas decides i 1 Japan it will be through I rari and nd that negotiations will be he heI I either eith r between M 11 I 11 IK Ii French foreign minister and amI Dr the Japanese minister at iari arl or M 11 Harmand Hannan l the French mm J tvr to Japan Ja and Count Katsura the J premier at Tokio Thc Th H lan government now feels I n nain tin that Japan will win not make the thet i t st move nor disclose her position po un 11 1 1 J il overtures are made authoritatively jr j i tu t 1 emperors name nunie on the ground t 1 i Id it tt he alone is ill capable of or binding Bus Rus Russia sia La Japans Position It Jt is i quite possible that at f in zu this regard lisa has been exposed i 1 trough unofficial attempts to ascer t I Un tili terms Japan Tapan it will be he 3 J n r ril 1 took the same i wh heti 31 J i I rr ri I the German on t of r f c at it without plc pie j 3 ir ry powers sought to obtain t 1 tills for ending the tho tr 11 r declining to treat trat until Ll Li Hung Hungt t Il 11 accompanied by General G l John JohnV V Foster went to Tokio tk the l with 3 ill Il powers n Furthermore in view lew of or ofT orl T l 10 II I that no baste basI of If agree 3 u t cut nt m ht result even ovon should the thc om em omy y now approach Japan Tapan pacific tJ q i fC it is i regarded as fitS entirely 1 that hostilities would continue following of the C war ar until negotiations L The rhe n ego tia liMi I weare begun in Itt December and andia 3 ia a t A was as concluded in the following TEll IHl Meanwhile the tho th Japanese made madei it IL i winter I III er campaign an In Manchuria Would Never Agree In I t I 11 he conferences I the he action ot inn whether Russia 8 should now i j uli lii t atc at her er willingness for fOt peace peRce all MP ni rt f e that preparations to con cont tiTi 1 t i th the war shall not b be relaxed and f C to reject humiliating terms T J 1 h T would probably be two points on ont onn n t M Jih h Russia would be found p iV 11 namely na meb cession of territory and andi i to of which It is israil rail would Emperor Nicholas ever u P PI I It JH i p pointed l out nut er that if IC l ii 11 tjan an 11 serIously desires peace on collat collata a at ai Russia might be ready reo dy f V 1 liberal compensatory T n For FocI Instance in lieu of ot direct i j h she he might turn over oer to Ja Ta JaT T in tu the proceeds of ot the sale eale of all the thc 3 J j if and property of the Port Arthur Aithur Arthurt t nd nil Dalny and the Chinese Eastern ways and liberally pay for the lW i 1 t nance of or Russian prisoners in 1 pan and while refusing to cede Sak 3 mIght u grant rights Tights to the fisher fisherI I 1 there thre or even relinquish all the vau iV 1 seal I al fisheries on the Commander j 11 nr It is possible also that sat t tj 1 j fa fu tory arrangements might be made garding Russian naval strength in inc c fU j rn waters for fora a period of years |
