Show would have differences of japs and russians settled by uninterested parties plan will be presented to the czar and the M kado with a possibility of its ultimate acceptance portsmouth N H the chances of peace have undoubtedly been am proved by president ac alon in stepping into the breach in a last endeavor to induce the warring countries to compromise their irre conci lable differences but the result ie still in suspense the ultimate decision of the confer ence has passed to st petersburg and in perhaps a lesser extent to boklo although there are collateral evidences that pressure both by pres ident roosevelt and neutral powers including japan s ally great britain whose minister sir claude macdon aid according to a dispatch received here had a long conference sunday afternoon with mr katsura the japanese premier is still being exerted at boklo to induce japan to moderate her demands there Is also reason to believe that president roosevelt was able at his interview with baron de rosen to practically communicate to the latter s senior M witte jap ans irreducible minimum what she would yield but the point beyond which she would not go the feature of the proposition of president roosevelt communicated through baron rosen to M witte and by the latter to emperor nicholas was baaed on the principles of tion whether the president bontem plates arbitration of all of the articles on which the plenipotentiaries haqq failed to agree or only on the ques alon of indemnity or to indemnity and the cession of the island of sakhalin Is not announced |