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Show Japanese' not sanguine. But Are Willing to Make Peace If Rus-sla Rus-sla Is In Earnest. Toklo. Toklo has calmly received-tho received-tho news pf American Intervention nnd prospective peaco. Tho absence of assurance that Russia will accept President Roosevelt's proposal, and tho knowledge that tho flnnl consummation consum-mation of peace Involves tho adjustment adjust-ment of a series of questions of paramount para-mount Importance, requlrirtg tho most fcareful diplomacy and 'extending over weoks of negotiation, coupled perhaps' with tho recollection of a previous ex-perlonco ex-perlonco In tho thorny path of tho world's politics, seem to create a disposition dis-position to await final results. Thero Is, nevertheless, the keenest satisfaction satisfac-tion over tho preliminary step and a fooling of deop gratefulness over President Roosovelt's nctlon. Thero Is nlso genuine thanksgiving at tho thought that tho carnago and horror and wasto of war will soon end and a gcnulno hope that) tho negotiations negotia-tions will. bring a satisfactory and enduring en-during pp ace. , Tho national rejoicing an-ftuamkB-giving will probnbly bo deferred until tho treaty of, peaco Is signed and all doubt ended. |
