Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1904 — Wants No Mediation. [ARTICLE]

Wants No Mediation.

In the niost categorical terms Russia has officially notified the world that she will not accept mediation to terminate the war with Japan. The official notification declares: "Everything within the limits of possibility was done by Russia to solve the complications which had arisen in the far East in a peaceful manner. but after the treacherous surprise on the part of the Japanese which forced Russia to take up arms obviously no friendly mediation can have any success. Similarly the imperial government will not admit the intervention of any power whatsoever in the direct negotiations which will occur between Russia and Japan after the termination of hostile operations in order to determine the conditions of peace.”

The State Department has received a cablegram from United States Minister Griscom at Tokio confirming the press reports of the landing of the Japanese in the Liao-Tung peninsula, about forty miles above Port Arthur. The location as given in the Japanese dispatch is Kinchau.