Your leading article on the 24th inst. with reference to the Far Eastern situation has been much appreciated here and reproduced by not a few Japanese and foreign including the "Japan Mail," which did so under the caption of "A Tribute to Japan." The situation is not materially. improved, but it' seems tw be the general impression amur:; some sections that the war clouds have been more or less cleared away. But there is no reason to believe that the prepara-tinns lately taken by the Tokio Cabinet to meet the worst have been given up. Japan's efforts are not for a dishonourab'e peace, Lut tv induce Russia to make some proper concessions for a pacific settlement.
Baron Komura, Japanes Minister Foreign Affsirs, and Baron Rosen, Russian Representative, had a sixth conference for about an hour on Friday afternoon, the 30th inst., in the former's official residence,
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