Show A RUSSIAN VIEW of the keisers kaisers Kai sers desire to have the war prolonged portsmouth N H aug 25 mr the correspondent of the st petersburg clovo in his cable to his paper today dwelt upon the reported role played by emperor william he wrote there Is a factor in the situation which has not appeared on the surface but nevertheless has played a big role it Is emperor william the deep impression produced by the meeting of the two sovereigns at bjorke is known and it Is also known that emperor william returned homo enchanted we have read about the efforts which are being made by the german press to provo the solidarity of the kaiser with Roosevel ts understanding but the kaiser Is than ang only of germany for the good of germany it is necessary that russia should be engaged in the far east as long as possible so aa to be free to force france to join germany and break with england for this purpose it Is necessary to defeat president Roosevel ts object that in order subsequently when russia Is exhausted emperor william may become the mediator between her and japan thus to isolate england by menacing france with a rupture of her alliance with russia all of which will conduce to the germany hegemony of continental europe and to accomplish all this it ia necessary to persuade emperor nicholas that he must not bow before the failures which have come that all great na bons have had to suffer such and it is his duty to alva the armies of linevitch a chance to turn the situation there is luck in battle fortune has thus far been with the japanese but luck changes and will change the emperor surrounded by the military party cannot resist lending a favorable ear to such words and that will make further concessions very difficult all the forces working tor peace should concentrate their efforts to demonstrate to emperor nicholas that the prolongation of the war cannot possibly change the ultimate conditions of peace and that it is time to cease working in the interests of the king of prussia |