Show peace prospects are brighter prospects of peace between russia and japan assumed a more definite and almost tangible aspect friday says a paris dispatch as the result ot of the announcement of the tion of negotiations for a russian loan coupled with the announcement ot of the resumption of the loan negotiations came a strong intimation from official and diplomatic quarters that steps looking toward peace had been deft bitely taken by russia the foreign office declined to confirm a report that france was likely to be the diary but diplomats who are actively interested tor for the first time gave cred it to the statement that russia had de c eded to setek peace |