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Show II WILL COME DIRECT, ! Russia and Japan "Will Negotiate I j Without Intermediary, j LONDON. March 2S. "When peace ne- i gotintlons commence It will be between Russia and Japan direct, and not through 1 j any Intermediary," was Minister Haya- S shl's comment to the Associated Press I i tonight when shown tho dispatch from j 1 1 a northern European capital stating that I M. Dclcasse. the French Foreign Mlnls- tor, had been naked to act as an lntcr- 1 medlary to open peace negotiations. Minister Min-ister Hayashl said he attached no lmpor- ; ; I tance to the statement, but believed that ft j France .was trying to influence Russia '. B I to open negotiations for peace. j S "So far as I know," he added, "no. ne- RS 9 gotlatlons liavo been begun; but when jfS I UuEsIa is ready to mako terms. Japan jf I will bo happy to consider them." fi I fi Minister Hayashl repeated his previous K j H statements that Japan Is not noticing tt i peace rumors,' but steadily preparing to If J prosecute tho war to-tho -bitter end. C At Foreign Secretary- Lansdowno's rcsl- ! dence tonight the Assocloted Presa was f informed that it would bo useless to f 1 1 ask Lord Lansdowne for an expression of I opinion at the present juncture, as ho f must decline to glvo out any statement on I I the subject of peace. |