THE WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8177, 18 March 1905, Page 2

THE WAR.

. SfOP THE WAR!

"A HOPELESS CONTEST."

SENSATIONAL NEWSPAPER ARTICLE.

• IPBESS AB9OCIAJIO2T.] (Received March 17, 9.20 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, March 17. Prince Mestchorsti contributed ' jw**emarkable article in the Grazhdanin newspaper, insisting that since jitt is boneless to continue the war successfully' it is better to conclude it, thereby saving Russia internal shipwreck. While Russia possesses Vladivostok and' other territory in the Far East more favorable terms will be

obtainable than when -Vladivostok and Saghalien are Japanese. The article has caused, a great sensation in St. Petersburg.