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Show ! INTERVENTION PROPOSED. Two weeks ago th world held its breath, expecting ex-pecting war to be declared by Great Britain upon Russia. In a day all was changed, and an agreement agree-ment made to inquire into the facts surrounding the attack of the Baltic sea fleet upon English fishermen in the North sea. The convention will be held at Paris. It will consist of five members Russian, British, American and French the representatives rep-resentatives of these four nations to choose the j fifth member. It is almost certain that the result of the inquiry will be something other than war, wherever the blame is lodged for faring upon the fishermen. In line with this method of inquiry and peaceful peace-ful solution of international difficulties, President Roosevelt' issued an address to the signatory powers pow-ers of The Hague tribunal for a second peace conference. Bj- many it is regarded premature and impossible of concurrence, owing to the war I now being waged between Russia and Japan. It is almost certain that Russia will agree to no proposal pro-posal for peace until she is through with , Japan. At this writing, (Thursday) a London dispatch furnishes the strange intelligence that Japan, in nn unofficial way, had already made, tenders of peace to Russia. The proposition was not considered con-sidered in a favorable light by Russia, and further representations by Japan, even privately, are not likely to be repeated, according to this London dispatch. The information thus imparted opened up a lot of speculation concerning the effect of proposed pro-posed intervention. Whenever such talk is indulged in-dulged in nowadays, the United States is named as one of the intervenors, usually by Lord Lans-J Lans-J downe or some other, English official. And if the election of Tuesday -last means one thing more than another, a majority of the American people would not say nay to the American government taking a hand in settling the affairs of Europe and Asia, unmindful of the fact that such act would be a direct invitation for the other war powers to settle all American affairs that needed settling. However, we must wait a daj- or two before taking stock in this story, a story that names America, Great Britain and France as the suggested intervenors. in-tervenors. A story, too, that quotes Baron Hay-ashi, Hay-ashi, the Japanese minister, as saying that he ''should not be surprised to see the three powers named, or two of them, take the action suggested." After all, may it not be a trick to prejudice the Russian side before the tribunal to sit at Paris? 1 |