PEACE COMMISSION.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 31, 30 August 1905, Page 3

PEACE COMMISSION.

Latest Tokio Report War the Only Alternative. Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright St. Petersburg, August 29. Count Lamsdorff's organ has a veiled allusion to the possibility of bargaining over the Sagbehen item. Washington, August 29. A statement issued at Portsmouth from an obviously Russian source Btates there baa been some misunderstanding at Petershop regarding the real purport of President Roosevelt s offer on behalf of Japan, when President's Roosevelt suggested the cession of Northern Saghalien, leaving the Exemption price to arbitration. i This has been interpreted at Peterebop to reveal indemnity in the guise money. The Japanese that Saghalien is de facto Japanese territory which Ruseia has no present means of recovering. M. de Witte accepted this view, believing that Russia should pay something in the nature of redemption money. The statement adds it is believed that Baron Komura is now instructed to wave the matter of the reimbursement of the cost of the war. London, August 29. The latest Tokio report states that a decided rupture will take place at the Conference unless Russia speedily accepts Japan's terms. The Japanese press is warlike. Count Takahira, in an interview, said the adjournment of the Conference was due to a desire to obtain full possession of the Mikado's views on the situation. M. de Witte told Takahira that no delay could affect the position. Bus sia had said her last word. The Russian plenipotentiary told the New York correspondent of The Times that President Roosevelt had thrice vainly appealed to the Czar to change his mind. The Czar, in making his answer to President Roosevelt, said that he had deliberately denied himself all liberty to change the proposals ; indeed, had he desired to do so, it was put beyond his power to change. Tokio, August 29 The Ministers and the elder statesmen at Tokio sat the whole morning, and then under the Mikado's presidency in the afternoon. Sharp declines on the Tokio Stock Exchange showed that peace was considered hopeless. The shares in the Exchange itself fell 20 yen.