The other Crusade is that in favour of the Czar's peace proposals. In this Mr. Stead is meeting with greater success than was anticipated by those who threw cold water on the scheme or thought that the agitation might be ignored as futile. Town meetings in' many of the largest halls throughout the country have plainly shown, howerer, that mon of all parties and creeds are willing to strengthen the hands of the Government in supporting the Czar's proposals at the forthcoming conference. The two conditions which all speakers agree upon are, the maintenance of the Navy at its present effective strength, and closer ce-operation on the Pacific seaboard with the United States. One cannot see, however, what the first practical step of the Czar's conference can be unless Russia should impose upon herself a real restriction of her military and naval forces,
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