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Show Neutral Powers Likely to Move In an Effort to Restore Peace. Tho war In tho far east has enlisted tho closest attention of tho administration, adminis-tration, and II Is felt thnt tho tlmo is approaching when it will le In order for the great neutral powers to moo toward the restoration of peace. President Presi-dent Roosevelt has from tho first stood ready to use his good offices to stop hostilities on a basis honorahlo to both belligerents, but ho Is estopped from molng by tho fact that It has been tho unbroken rule of our govern merit to wait until It is assured that both sides to a controversy of this kind are willing that wo should net There has so far been no open proposition, propo-sition, nor can it bo truthfully stated that even an indirect overture has como to Washington from St. I'eteis-burg I'eteis-burg or Toklo, hut It Is believed signs point to an early moo In that dlrec tlon. |