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Show RUSSIA AND JAPAN AGREE TO MEETING J Belligerents Have Acceded to PresL den Roosevelt's Peace Proposition. Washington. Japan's acceptanco of ho president's "offer of good will" lias reached tho stato department in a cnblogram from Minister Grlscom, Huiisla's roply followed later. , From an authoritative official sourco It Is learned that it has boon practically practical-ly determined that the plenipotentiaries plenipoten-tiaries of Japan nnd Russia fortho determination de-termination of penco terms -will hold their sessions In Washington. Inasmuch as tho efforts which havo been successful In tho bringing of the two bolllgeront governments into contact con-tact wore Initiated by President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, nnd further that amlcablo relations rela-tions exist between tho United States nnd both Russia nnd Japan, this city Is regarded as tho "logical placo" for tho Institution of tho pfncticnl pcaco negotiations between tho warring governments. gov-ernments. For obvious reasons London, Lon-don, It was polntpd out, would be out of tho question, and for slmlar reasons rea-sons Paris would not bo cousldorod. Objections to the holding Jot tho conference con-ference In Borlln also havo l6en mndo. Vlonna was suggested as a deslrrtbio-plnco, deslrrtbio-plnco, but under nil tho circumstances Washington was deemed by both St. Petersburg nnd Toklo to bo tho most favorable plnco for tho holding of tho peaco conference ' |
