Eureka Reporter | 1905-06-16 | Page 2 | Japanese Not Sanguine

JAPANESE NOT SANGUINE but are will ng to make peace if rus sla Is in earnest boklo boklo has calmly received the news of american intervention and prospective peace the absence ot assurance that russia will accept president roosevelt s proposal and the knowledge that the final colsum matlon of peace involves the adjust ment of a series of questions of para mount importance requiring the most careful diplomacy and extending over weeks of negotiation coupled perhaps with the recollection of a grevous pre ex per lence in the thorny path of the worlds politics to create a dis position to await final results there is nevertheless the keenest alon over the preliminary step and a feeling of deep gratefulness over president roosevelt s action there Is also genuine thanksgiving at the thought that the carnage and horror and waste of war will soon end and a genuine hope that the negolia alons will bring a satisfactory and en during pace the national rejoicing and thanks giving will probably be deferred until the treaty of peace Is signed and all doubt ended