RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8834, 14 July 1905, Page 1

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

[By Electkio Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.) Received July 13, at 10.53 p.m. London, July 13. M. Muravieff, ostensibly on the grounds of ill-health, will not proceed to Washinton. Frencft advices from St. Petersburg state that his proposed instructions were vague. He was not allowed any discretion to discuss the dismantlement of Vladivostock, and was restricted in other directions. Received July 14, at 0.24 a.m. London, July 13. The Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the peace prospects are decidedly better. M. de Witte, a persona grata, has been selected in place of M. Muravieff. Japan will welcome the appointment as a, proof of the serious desire for peace. The British and German portions of the Japanese loan were subscribed tenfold, and the American about fivefold, whereupon the list was closed.