Show RUSSIA WANTS A BATTLE st petersburg aug 28 the oviet today says the japanese conditions for peace would only be acceptable it a japanese fleet were threatening st petersburg and a japanese army was occupying moscow russia will not bow to the japanese yoke to fulfill president Roosevel ts desire to guarantee the american creditors of japan and to cover himself with glory as a peacemaker japan needing peace seeks it through the intermediary of her friend president roosevelt and makes exorbitant demands while the president is striving indirectly to exact the consent of russia after long and fruitless negotiations it would seem that we are on the eve of what russia has long desired a great battle between general and field marshal oyama |