THE WAR IN THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7864, 5 July 1905, Page 2

THE WAR IN THE EAST.

- 0— I Peace Proposals. I Russia's Amazing Effrontery, j A JAPANESE LOAN FOR DOMESTIC REQUIREMENTS. I,ON HON, July :•$. l!us"-iii has ■iiifoi'iiu'.l China Unit Japan's resources were exhausted- before s.-lting foot on Russian territcry, ami sin; therefore p.romptcd' I 'resident Roosevelt's- propottil, Russia accepted out of courtesy to Anicrirn. 'l'ho Times'' St. Petersburg correspondent states that Russia, has ap--1 nalt'd tin All- Roosevelt to arrange ; n armistice, but that Japan ha* declined, bccaus- Russia fa led to ask Japan direct. M. Takuhashi, Japanese limui" at agent, stales that it is inteniled to •hortly raise in London, New York, and on the Continent a: loan of ] thirty millf.on sterling. Nearly twenty millions of the last loan is unuse-J. but, whatever the result of the peace negotiations, ■the moneywill be required to redeem domestic bonds, assist, itvdtistrinl development, and provide military pulsions. Referring to '-Genera I Linjovitch's telegrams, the Japanese claim that their troops, moving- towaftls Esailungcheng, expelled i! 00 Kussians from Tashantun. >