| Show Small Prospect of Peace Tokla ToJ lo Jan 4 evening The weight ot vf opinion In uI Japanese official circles seems Beems to be against n a 1 belief In the tile early curly conclusion of ot pence doubt Is ex ox expressed pressed that the tho till fall of Putt Port Arthur Will materially affect tin the situation One of ot the several who WilD tilt III the tho question lu with the tho corre correspondent nt of or the tho th Associated 1 PrellA Iress today voiced olce 1 the tho tit sentiment of the tho majority When he lie said euld Wo We are aro confronting a n situation I which continues to be bl purely military The Th present problem m Is III created by h I flen Oen nr 1 by the lie Russian Second Pacific squadron Wu e are de tie devoting I voting nil till attention to 10 them Wn Wo anticipate that th hI will renew rellow more determinedly thim ever i their effort to drive Field Filth Marshal Oya 01 i lila buck and that they to topain pain gain supremacy nt at pen 1111 Wo We ore pre pro preparing paring to defeat both holh these objects i This Thle situation makes talk of ot pence penco futile |