THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7905, 22 August 1905, Page 3

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

ROYAL ENDEAVOURS. URGING PEACE OS BOTH SIDES. DE WITTE'S SIGNIFICANT REMARK. Japanese Like Graves Images. LONDON, Aug. 20. It is stated that King Kdward, President Loubet and the Kaiser arc urging Si. Petersburg, and Toliio to avoid failure of the Conference, but there is no sign of concession in regard to the indemnity. M. de ffitto remirked that perhaps between now and Tuesday some foreign Power may use its influent c. Talking to Japanese was like talking to a graven image. The Times says that Professor Martins' views overlook the occupation of Saghalien and the huge indemnity Which Russia squeezed from China after the Boxer trouble by manipulating figures for the purpose.

THE POWERS SUPPORT ROOSEYELT.' Significant Inteniews. Communicating with the Cnr(Received Aug. 21, 9.57 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. It is stated in Oyster Bay that before inviting Baron de Rosen, President Roosevelt secured the active and cordial support of Great Britain, France and Germany, and communicated with the Mikado through Mr Griscom, American Minister at Tokio, and Baron Kaneko, Jauanese Jtinister l at Washington. Baron de Rosen spent an hour with! the President on Saturday, and three with M. de Witte yesterday. Thereafter a message,was despatched to the; Czar. TOKIO, Aug. 21. Cabinet has met. Baron Katsura, Prime Minister, received Sir Claude McDonald, British Minister at Tokio, with whom he had a long interview. JAPAN'S CONDITIONS. Reduced to the Smallest. Reasonable and Host ObTions. (Received Aug. 21, 11.28 p.m.) TOKIO, Aug. 21. Baron Katsura, after his interview with Sir Claude McDonald, the Mikado and prominent Japanese, informed Dr. Morrison, London Times correspondent, that when the conditions of peace were drafted, Japan brushed aside proposals the nation regarded as essentials, and reduced her t« r ms to the smallest possible, the most reasonable and the most obvious. I STUMBLING BLOCK. Farther Conctssions ImpossibleRussia's Final Bedsits. (Received ftug. 21, 11.28 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 21. The Times' Portsmouth correspondent reports tlrat a telegram received there this evening declares that the Council, under the presidency of the Czar, apparently unanimously and finally decided that further concessions are impossible.