Peaoe Prospects Fading.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11646, 25 August 1905, Page 5

Peaoe Prospects Fading.

LONDON, August 24. The Times' Portsmouth correspondent reports. that the prospects of peace have not improved. They declare that the payment has not been made easier by disguis^ ing it to be used as tho purchase money of an island belonging to Russia. He adds that "the latest instructions from St. Petersburg, which, however, are not final; are peremptory and most unyielding. The Japanese, on their- side, use the word "hopeless." They do not expect a favourable answer, and have no new proposals.