Show = ATHGRAPPLE IN THE FAR EAST Such Would be the Result of a Failure of the Peace Conferees Con-ferees to Agree Russian Army Being Steadily Reinforced Rein-forced In Expectation of Final Rupture Rup-ture While Japs In the Field Are Spoiling for a Fight Oyster BayA crisis In the peace negotiations is approaching rapidly Whether there Is to he peace between Russia and Jnpan or a continuance of tho war will bo determined very likely within a few days Since ho made his direct appeal to Emperor Nicholas President < < Roosevelt Roose-velt has boon awaiting developments hopeful that such efforts as ho has felt proper to make to avert a failure of the Washington conference might not be futile On Thursday these developments de-velopments began to appear A ro IKlrt from Ambassador Meyer at St Petersburg of his audience with Emperor Em-peror Nicholas was received and In addition some Important advices from Portsmouth reached tho president The correspondent of Reuters 10 gram company at St Petersburg was on Thursday authorized by Count Lamsdorff the foreign minister to state officially and In tho most formal for-mal manner that Russia will pay Japan no contribution direct nor indirect I In-direct nor will it make any cession I of territory whatever It is declared by prominent Rus plans that Russias sincere desire for peace was manifested In tho spirit 01 concession shown by tho Russian mission on the other disputed points and that If Japan was willing to waive this demand which was consistent neither with the honor nor the dignity of Russia there would bo no trouble In arranging peace Japans Insistence Insist-ence on Indemnity being the only bar tier to the termination of tho war The emperors Inflexible determination determina-tion to continue the war rather than yield to a demand which Is regarded I as warrantable only In tho case of I a vanquished nation Is strengthened by tho latest dispatches received from General Llnovltch In which ho reports re-ports tho strength of the Russian position posi-tion and speaks favorably of tho spirit and condition of his latest renlforce meats and the morale of tho entire I army Reinforcements for tho front nra reported re-ported as steadily arriving The Thirteenth Thir-teenth corps Is now en route and tho war ministry Is preparing to dispatch a composite corps In case negotiations for peace fall Only regular troops and nut reverslsts aro now being forwarded for-warded and It Is reported that tho city ot Moscow grenadiers have re cehed marching orders l competent military attache of an European power who Is acquainted thoroughly with tho defensive facilities facili-ties at Vladivostok declares that the Japaneso will find that fortress a harder nut to crack than Port Arthur If they decide to break off negotiations negotia-tions In the meantime tho Japanese In tho field and many at home aro clamoring clam-oring for a continuance of the war In tho far east believing that they will ultimately compel Russia to accept terms |