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Show NOT READY FOR PEACE. St. Petersburg Press Deprecates Talk Wi of Mediation. I1 ST. PETERSBURG. Oct. 20. The Novoo Vremya this morning dep- SI rccatlng the renewed talk of foreign In- f I tcrventlon in the Russo-Japanese war, Ml Boys: 1 ft ' "Such talk. If based upon the fact II that now and again lire voicing; of an w urgent desire for peace Is based In Rus- sla, must reflect the marvelous lgno- Bf- ranee of or indifference on the part of Iji foreigners to Russia's true internal con- fflf ditlon. The fact is that in Russia, as In other countries, there are several par- Ml ties; two of these want peace tho ex- flf treme reactionaries, because they con- H( stltute what was known In the United fflj States during the Spanish-American ( war, and In England during the Boer ' j war, as 'peace at any prjee men,' and j the ultra-radicals, because they are In j favor of a humiliating peace which ; 5 would weaken the present government. : I But these parties aro Insignificant be- fl side the great body of moderate pro- j greBsives, who wish to see Russia's In- j terlor economical capabilities developed to their fullest extent, and who realize , l that only through a decisive Russian victory In the Far East can the wound , f be healed, not plastered. Russia has j a the opportunity for Interior develop- 1 mcnt on which their heart is set." J |