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Show France Believes Time Inopportune. Diplomatic Callers at French Forejgn Office Are So Informed. Italian Embassador in Paris Has Been Making- Inquiries Among Colleagues. PARIS, Nov. 12. The reports of contemplated con-templated mediation In the war In the far East have again made It plain that France does not consider the time opportune op-portune to exert Influence singly or Jointly to Induce Russia to make or accept ac-cept terms. Efforts Will Be Futile. At the same moment that the rumoro were circulating in various capitals that France Intended to act, M. Del-carse, Del-carse, the Foreign Minister, was pointing point-ing out to diplomatic callers that efforts at mediation would be futile, when one of the Embassadors sounded the Minister on France's Intentions-. Denied by Tornielli. Count Tornielli, the Italian Embassador, Embas-sador, has been malting- Inquiries among bin colleagues concerning the prospecty. of terminating the war, but these have indicated no definite steps In any quarter. quar-ter. Count Tornielli specifically denies a printed report that a courier from the Italian cabinet has arrived In Paris for the purpose of Inducing France to take up the work of mediation. Discouraged Mediation. The Russian embassy and Japanese legation have also given out statements discouraging mediation. The former said the attitude of the Russian Government regarding all propositions for mediation remains unchanged. If any proposition proposi-tion Is made It will be courteously but resolutely declined. The Japanese Minister Min-ister said that any peace overtures must come from the other side. Impossible to Hold Conference. The Tempf) (seml-ofilclal), dlecusslng the American proposition for the reassembling reas-sembling of The Hague peace conference, confer-ence, says It has reason to believe that the Russian Government, while disposed dis-posed to participate In another meeting, will respond that It Is impossible to hold a conference during the duration of the war. American Proposition. The paper also asserts that Count Lamsdorff, the Russian Foreign Minister, Minis-ter, understood that the American proposition prop-osition excluded the Idea of a meeting pending the war, and It Is surprised to learn that a meeting Is contemplated during the war. On the other hand, the Agence Russe, claiming semi-official connections, sayo that Russia has accepted the American Ameri-can proposition In principle. |