JAPAN "STRIVING FOR PEACE."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7874, 8 January 1904, Page 2

JAPAN "STRIVING FOR PEACE."

Received 7, 9.50 p.m. : , f r ONDON, J**marjr 7. Japanese firms, have ordered .thejrra^ pnesentative'i in Manchuria to aeiid' their' " families away. * ' . . ' Two Kusslan and two British cruisers are at Chemulpho, and the latter are sending marines to Seoul *•

v Mr Bennet Burleigh, Daily Telegraph, correspondent, states that the ' Russian re* Jly is in the hands of M. Van Konsen, the iussian Minister in 'Japan; but he indicates that it is of an unsatisfactory Jiature. Russia consents to Japan's denoanqs regarding Korea, but advances no clause, for negotiations in St. Petersburg. <■ . The Standard's Tokio corresjton^t* says the reply js at the Russian L«g^tion, but it is not yet delivered to Japan. , The Mikado, in receiving Mr W. H. Taft, American Governor of the :PMlippines, said Japan was striving earnestly and pawentity to maintain peace. .. . :