THE WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1537, 19 August 1905, Page 2

THE WAR.

PEACE CONFERENCE

By, telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright London, Anguet 17. Dr. Morrison, tho Tlmea’ Pekin correspondent, now at Portsmouth, Unite Statos, telegraphs tho Timot that the Lon foroooo will seemingly fail, yet holding it will have been justified in opening the way to a subsequent conference wbon a favorable issue may be oxpected.

INDEMNITY, INTERNED SHIPS, 1 AND NAVAL POWER. By telegraph, Press Aas’n, Copyright Received 9.64 p.m., Aug. 18. Washington, August 18. The Poaoe Conference was unable to agree on the question of indemnity or os to tho internod ships olousb. Both olauses havo been shelved temporarily. _ _ > The discussion on tbo limitation of Russian naval power foreshadowed disagreement, but tbo question was resumed to-day.

JAPANESE ANXIOUS TO DELIVER crushing BLOW. Cy telegraph, Press Ass’ii, Copyright Received 12.4 a.m., Aug. 19. Tokio, August 18The feeling in Tokio is buoyant that the negotiations will avert the resumption of hostilities.

London, Ang. 18. The Telegraph’s Tokio correspondent says that M. de Witte has conceded fishery rights. The Standard’s St. Petersburg correspondent says that the Czar has ordered two additional army corps to the front. ' Field-Marshal Oyama and all the generals at the front have memorialised the Mikado that the forces are anxious to deliver a crushing blow, and stronger termß ought to have been imposed.