REFUSES INDEMNITY.
RUSSIA'S FINAL STAND. I PROTOCOLS NEARLY READY. i WASHINGTON August 22. j Tu-j peace protocol setting out the I business done at the Conference, and the -views of the plenipotentiaries on the four disputed points, viz., indemn'ty, cession of Saghalien Island, surrender of interned warships,-and restriction of Russia's naval force in the Far East, are almost ready. I Russia bases her objection to the pay- j ing of an indemnity upon Professor de I Marten's contention that it cannot be j claimed as Russian territory, is not held | by Japan, and also upon the argument j ! that as she has not acknowledged defeat,' 1 I she entered the Conference merely from ' I her love of peace, and from a willingness ! 1 i to conclude peace on honourable terms. I I
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 201, 23 August 1905, Page 5
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