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Show the mum WISHES TO PROMOTE PEACE sj Russian Ruler Issues an Invitation to Foreign Powers to Attend Conference Confer-ence at The Hague, St. Petersburg. Emperor Nicholas today again appears boforo tho world as a promoter of universal peace. No Booncr Is the Russo-Japancao war over, nnd even boforo tho peaco treaty has been ratified, than his majesty Issues Is-sues Invitations to a second peace . . i conference at Tho Hague. That tho emperor has dono so was learned Monday from a source which B leaves no shado on which doubt as to H Ub authenticity may bo based. It la jw announced that the Russian govern- raent purposes to address tho foreign I powers witli a view to tho holding of a second ponco confcrcnco at Tho I Hague, but it is known that negotla- I tlons preceding this announcement H that tho government purposed to ad- H dress the powers wero entered Into H especially with tho United StateB nnd s. I wero conducted with tho greatest so- E crecy, thero being not tho slightest "l -Ju, B Inkling that Russia contemplated ' B anything or tho kind. B Tho news created tho greatest sur- H prise here and thnt Russia should plan a second confcrcnco desplto tho steps B already taken by President Roosevelt B was also heard with amazement. It Is B clear that tho step could not ho taken B by Russia without first reaching a B complete understanding with Presl- BJ dent Roosovelt. The fact that the BJ nrpfldlATlt lu 1-nnrirtiwl no Imlttt nntlpnlv ! in sympathy with tho proposal and BJ that be is said to bolluvo thnt to the Bj Initiator to the first Hague conference BJ should belong the honor of convoking Bj tho second, nnd readily and glndly ac- BJ ceded to tho Russian proposition, is BJ clear proof that tho confcrcnco has H been called and that President (loose- BJ velt relinquished his part In It to the BJ emperor. BJ |