| Show It PEACE PROSPECTS Pt NOT OT BRILLIANT T Those Well Informed Believe Bellec Dramas Oy Victor Victory Will Rouse r Russian Fighting FI Spirit WAR MAY CO GO ON OH 0 INDEFINITELY Y YNo No One Can Foretell Line Unc of Con Conduct Conduct Conduct duct the thc Czar Will III I Adopt London Jondon March 11 Tho announce announcement ment of ortho t the tho fall tall of ot Mukden was wa dill dis discounted counted 1 In London by II the reports chronicling the tho progress of ot the tho groat battle but Jut tho the actual occupation of ut tho thoI I capital of ot Manchuria by the Japanese J Is l Ii the subject of ot comment everywhere especially Ih Hi diplomatic circle Tim Thu foreign onice declined to tn on tIu event but hut there ther an UK wad intense In It tho thu Japanese I encircling movement and 1101 Its ItH Ios I effect upon the future progress of ot tho Urn I war Few who ho ate arc well Informed arc ato In tn Inclined to the tho belief that man victory and ond strate strato strategy gy In will bring peace within mO distance the opinion being that while Whilo tim the fighting force torce IH In and probably will be tie obliged to retire further than Tie pass or oven Harbin Urn the spirit of or tho the HUll lan na nfl nation tion 1101 would be ho Increased rathor limn tutu reduced by defeat antI and that lint only com corn compulsion pUl lon will bring the tho nation nullon to ltd knee kee Damn Baron formerly ConnerlY minister or of tho the interior In th the course cour or of on nn Interview Mild that whether the tho victory cory Indicated nn an curly early termination of or the tho war was wan a 1 rlue llon that t Rione llone could answer The Thc Japanese JU II 1 Ration gaLlon hits has been Inundated 11 with IOU con and everywhere tho the prime primo note waB praise of ot tho the genius of or O nia ma which Will wan conceded conc even evon by I tho the mOlt lan observers Tho The Spectator In n a striking article rays nays Hussla hitherto an unknown I quantity to all but a I few row diplomat l Is III hOW revealing herself to tn nil all mankind nod and the revelation of or n a groat country In iii Its hour of ot agony has as all much a ho hoI t I effect as 1 tt v treat great catastrophe I nil all good and bUtt bad being beloR ex ox exhibited exhIbited under tho the Intolerable light ot of other o oher her vast resources and ca CR capacity for tor endurance her tolling toiling peo people It pie the tho he Inferiority of or her governing claw clAss oven even the underlying fact of or the of ot tier her fond food supply all nil giving hints almost amounting to toI I prophecies of or tho tim future of ot tho the great Sla race tho the possibilities of or pence lenc and Hussla being cowed by the great I defeat tho Spectator thinks that do ito I historic precedents precedent II It tt does no follow Collow that tho the emperor wIt will n make peace lie Is III credited with Baying tint that it Is only necessary Mcc ary to retire behind Baikal refuse penco and rebuild the tho forces until ho he In Is again ready for HK 1111 lve action and 1 he may ma writ wIll con consider sitter sider this thin course cour e preferable to the tho In Inexplicable explicable shamo of ot being beaten hll by an nn Asiatic nation unit and tho the dangers to Ms tile dynasty Involved In makIng pace on the tile terms ternie the tho Japanese J are aro likely to demand This Ihl difficulty of or predicting what line lino Emperor Nicholas will 11 tiLleD tuko 11 1 0 In Is admit admitted admitted ted td on all nil sides lillicH but there thero Is III still In I quarters an nn opinion that lint POUCH will ensue According to the Dully Dall overtures have havo already practically practically cally commenced the tho readi readiness ness to negotiate having been Intimated u to the tho French government and commit communications having paused between tha tue British and French governments with a it aview I Iview view of or Britain opening communications with Ith Japan It II In lit l ble ide nt lit present to confirm or verify the statement of or the Dully Dally which declares that bitt tho ho decision IH lit duo due not only filly to the tho lie defeat of or hut but n also o to the lie almost dif difficulties Husula mot met In tho the last nt tit attempt tempt to negotiate lIo a it loan JOlin In Paris lariH There is 18 anxiety hero to 10 learn the bitt fate of ot forces and whether the ho chum has hall drawn around them th 11 will lw ho to hold them The Tho forces must h hIn t tin In a II terrible plight aunt and a it repetition of ot otal all al the horrors horror of ot Napoleons retreat from Moscow Is IK regarded n ut among the tho th possibilities I I LI us H On the other hand tho t ii e condition of or the tho armies which must flutist t bo be Buffering from exhaustion might possibly enable to 10 gather his hili forces anil break through lie He Is III sail said to lieve been a ii sPectator at Rt Hodun nod ami It Is l believed the memories of or thoo days Ilnyo will Wilt to convince him of ot the Ito hopelessness of or the gle gleNo gb No further news nests of fir any kind 1 licis London According to one olle ii n ie port hut lu was tes want sent from Tie 1118 g nub ami that he hp will almost ahrnot Immediately transfer h to Harbin The Th Dally corr that lint the tha ar are completely Ignorant of or the movements movement of or the Japanese nut and tile the appearance of or the latter r In the w wn wu weg wega n a 1 complete surprise din 1111 iII cutter aster the r ddn tas vu largely oly duo to 10 un no department NOT TO It St 81 Petersburg Mardi March 11 13 II a m Tho TIm Ilu In an editorial article this Ihl morning strikes n a I note nule nut lint minimizing tile the extent of ur the defeat In Manchuria but hUI bidding th hi people not despair The rite rh 1 contains nine no word about pence veaco Its whole thought being uncompromIsing hll prosecution of ot the tho Will war though It Is U realized cl that lint this bitt months month of ot preparation for tor or any little and that perhaps Tie Ile posit pass pa s may Inay follow Mukden u klon It does Ioe not even te lu mand Gun Cult I removal but Ray It Is l necessary to determine whether Hussla has n a better b ge go e rill ral While holding up III the tho hands of ut the Iho gov goy government ornament In regard to the continuation of or the the HUSH Bites solemnly warns tarna It of ot the lie of or Internal Other Influential papers are arc apt to lCJ take hike the tho semi same stand ami nut voice a It I patri p trl otlo demand to crown the tho war with victory and rally nil alt forces toree for Cor the pros n of or the tho war |
