CABLE NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WAR IN THE FAR EAST.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 20 July 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS . [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WAR IN THE FAR EAST.

« I ■ BEWILDERING JAPANESE OPERATIONS. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, 19th July. It as .reported at Shanghai that the Japanese have Handed an army north of Vladivostock, completely bewildering the Russians, who -wer© prepared to offer J defence on the Tumen River, south of i ■tho fortress. TORPEDO FLOTILLA -SHELLED, j (Received July 20, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 19th July. Admiral Kamimura reports that ths enemy ashore shelled tho destroyer flotilla off Yukiwan (Korea). The flotilla re-plied, silencing and dispersing them. THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. ' ST. PETERSBURG, 19Mi July, j M. de Witte, one of t/he Russian plenipotentiaries at tha Peace Conference, 6aid, in the course of an interview: "I am afraid Japan'.s terms will prevent us •coming to an agreement. Russia is not crushed, and is not for ' peace at any price.' " •THE PROPOSED TERMS. Undsr date the. 13th June, the St. Pctersourg correspondent of the Fuanoh journal Eclair wrote : lam in a position to define tho pea-ce terms Japan is now offering, and those which JRuEsia will resign harself to accspting. They are as follow : — ! , JAPANESE. 1. (Payment of an indemnity of 1,250,000,000 .roubles — that is, | 3,250,000,000f (£130,000,000). This is an I essential condition. 2. Restitution of the whole of Manchuria to China, under a. Japanese adprotectorate. • 3. Japanese protectorate- over Korea, ■with a Viceroy to Tule it/he country, military occupation of the porte, and completely Japanese administration of Korea. 4. Cession of Port Arthur to Japan. 5. Cession to Japan of the whole Trane-iMaiichuriaii. Railway. 6. Opening of tho Trans-Siberian Railway to international commerce. . 7. Demolition of it-he fortifications of Vladivostock. 8. Cession of Saghalien to Japan. 9. Handing over to Japan of all the Russian -warships interned in neutral ports since the beginning of the. war. 10. Formal pledge by Russia not to keep a. fleet in the Far .East for twentyfive years. 11. Occupation by Japan of Vladivostock, and of 'the maritime provinces of the Amour, as a guarantee until payment of the last instalment of the indemnity. RUSSIAN. 1. Refusal to pay "any war indemnity whatever. Should Japan maintain her demands on this point, continuance of th© war a, outrance. 2. Cession to Cltina of Southern and Central "Manchuria, as far as Kharbin, with a Japanese administrative and military protectorate. 3. Japanese protectorate over Korea, ■with military occupation of tha ports, provided that the Empsror of JYorea is maintained on the throne. 4. Cession of Port Arthur to Japan (on ithia point the members of the Council were not united, some claiming that Port Arthur should be constituted a free port and should not be fortified). 5. Cession to Japan of the Port Ar-thur-Kharbin Railway. 6. Opening of the Trans-Siberian Railtray rto international trade. 7. Vladivostoclc to be declared a freeport. (The eventuality of the demolition of the. fortifications of Vladivostock was not even discussed, but was indignantly rejected). 8. Cession of Saghalien. to Japan. (This item cannot, however, be T-egarded as final for the present.) 9. Refusal to hand over tho warships interned in neutral ports to Japan. 10. Refusal to undertake not to keep a fleet in the Ear for twenty-five years. To sum up, Ruesia positively dejecta the. Japanese conditions relating to the payment of an indemnity, the cession of Vladivostock, and the surrender of the interned ships. She will only partially accept the Japanese conditions regarding Manchuria and Korea, 'but will possible resign herself to the loss of the Island of Saghalien.-