CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3536, 20 June 1905, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Russo-Japanese Situation CONSIDERING PEACE. AN ARMISTICE NOT YET ARRANGED. London, June 18. It is stated in authoritative circles in Washington that i'\ consequence of the pressure of certain European Powers urging Japan to name a mini* mum indemnity, President Roosevelt has advised Japan to use' tnoderatiorf in order to facilitate a settfosient. Japan objected to the pence conference being held in Europe, Russia acquiesced, and both accepted Washington as the place of meeting. Japan first proposed that the con* ferenco should meet at Chefoo, and Russia at Paris. President Roosevelt suggested the Hague. Japan and Russia then proposed Washington.^ The Czar is considering the appointment of General Kuropatkin as an additional plenipotentiary. The 11 Times’ ” St. Petersburg correspondent reports that arrangement? s for an armistice will be made only when the plenipotentiaries meet on«' another. The Russian press is nervous, and expresses the fear that Japan, in the event cf an armistice, will prepare a crushing blow in Manchuria and the Amur provinces. IN MANCHURIA. London, June iB. tA sifADyf detachment ol General Mistchenko's cavalry is active on General Nngi's left front', but thivre is fia suggestion of a raid against th« Japanese flank.