Tokio, 6th January The "Kokumin" flatly denies the rumours of peace. There can be no conviction of the possibility of mediation while both belligerents are resolved to fight out the issue—Otit own correkpontlent.
London via Bombay, 6th January The correspondent of the "Stand ard" at St. Petersburg wires that the Czar and his Ministers, in a Council held at the Palace, decided to prosecute the war energetically, and to provide General Kuropatkin with 200,000 troops before the end of February.—Reuter.
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