Show PORTS MOUTHS importance suddenly impressed on foreigners watching peace meeting k f berlin aug 7 portsmouth N H a place unknown and even unmarked oa some maps in common use has suddenly become a spot on which the attention of the diplomatic world Is fixed not only the foreign office but the and the great trading and financial houses of germany look forward with extreme interest to the meetings of the peace envoys and numerous russian enterprises old and new financed by german credit wait on the results of the conference the doubts existing in london and other capitals over the prospects of peace exist here but la a tar milder form the prevailing opinion is that although neither russia nor japan Is anywhere near the exhaustion of its resources yet peace Is so necessary to both that each will be reluctant to withdraw from the negotiations they are begun without attaining peace it Is believed in official quarters that each side will find the other adopting a stiff attitude in the beginning and coming close to the breaking point but that ultimately a common ground will bo reached |