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The Paducah Daily Sun
Paducah, Mccracken County, Kentucky
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Czar Nicholas of Russia issues a note via Foreign Minister Muravieff inviting world powers to an international conference for peace and reducing armaments. Emperor William supports; European press largely favorable. (St. Petersburg, Aug. 29)
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He Issues a Note to Diplomats Inviting the Powers to an International Peace Conference.
He Wants All the Armies Cut Down, and Thinks All the Powers Should Strive for That Attainment.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 29.-By order of Emperor Nicholas, Count Muravieff, the foreign minister, on the 22d, inst. handed to the foreign diplomats at St. Petersburg a note declaring that the maintenance of peace and the reduction of the excessive armaments now crushing all nations is the ideal for which all governments ought to strive. The Czar considers the present moment favorable for the inauguration of movement looking to this end. and invites the powers to take part in an international conference as a means of thus insuring real and lasting peace and terminating the progressive increase of armament.
EMPEROR WILLIAM AGREES
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Berlin, Aug. 29.-It is understood that Emperor William will cordially support the czar's peace proposal
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London, Aug. 29.--The Chronicle has a Paris dispatch which says that Emperor William would probably have issued a proposal similar to that of the czar's had not the latter forestalled him.
EUROPEAN COMMENTS.
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Berlin, Aug. 29.-The Cologne Gazette says it would be rash to definitely answer the question whether the purpose of the Czar's peace proposal is attainable.
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Paris, Aug. 29.-The comments of this morning's papers on the Czar's universal peace proposal generally favor the idea, though some intimate that the scheme is but a dream incapable of realization.
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St. Petersburg
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Aug. 29
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emperor william agrees to support the proposal; european comments generally favorable, though some skeptical.
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By order of Emperor Nicholas, Count Muravieff handed a note to foreign diplomats on the 22d inst. declaring that maintenance of peace and reduction of excessive armaments is the ideal for governments. The Czar invites powers to an international conference to insure lasting peace and terminate armament increase. Emperor William will cordially support. European papers in Berlin, Paris, and London comment favorably, with some noting it as a dream.