THE JAPO-RUSSIAN WAR

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11637, 15 August 1905, Page 5

THE JAPO-RUSSIAN WAR

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Reassuring News.

Fresh Instructions for de Wltte.

Japs Threaten to Bombard

Baltic Ports.

Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright.

Received! August 14, 9.31 p.m. WASHINGTON, August 13. The discussion qf the peace conditions seriatim, despite Russia's , reply, was due to "Baron Konmra's initiative. His imperturable. tactics puzzled -M. de Witte, but de Witte's acceptance of the discuesion is interpreted in Japanese circles that de Witte would never have accepted unless Russia was really prepared to yield Saghalien.

PARIS, October 13.

Le Temps' St. Petersburg correspondent says that fresh instructions have _ been cabled to de Witte, which will serve' as a basis for counter proposala. , - The Echo d© Paris learns that one of the determining causes of the Kaiser's and the Czar's interview was the reported prospects of the Japanese bombarding Eussia 'a Baltic ports unless 1 peace was signed.