Show Thereported mediation of the British Brit-ish minister at Peking between Japan and Russia will be most satisfactory to this country If It Is conducted on the lines as wired His proposals are thaI Russia jhall restore Manchuria to China Chi-na and that the principal Manchurian towns bo opened to foreign trade that Russia withdraw all her troops from Manchuria with the exception of railway rail-way guards that she renounce her for estiy concessions on both sides of the Yalu river as well as the Yonghamphl concession and that the whole country coun-try south of the Yalu be admitted as belonging to the sphere Japan But It Is to be feared that Russia will conslrer these points Inadmissible Still it maybe may-be that they can be made the basis of negotiation and lead up to something right In the way of a settlement and the preservation of peace |