JAPANESE AFFAIRS.

Colonist, Volume XLVII, Issue 11435, 14 September 1905, Page 3

JAPANESE AFFAIRS.

London, September 12. The "Timeß" correspondent with General Nogi, describing the arrangements and derails of the armistice, states that the Japanese army bitterly resents the result of the peace negotiations, and is deeply disappointed that it is not allowed to make a further effort to force a decisive action. At headquarters it is considered that the .military evacuation of Manchuria will not be completed before April. The Eussians all along the line are extremely friendly, visiting the Japanese under the white flag. New York, September 12. Baron Komura, the Japanese Foreign Minister and Peace Plenipotentiary, who has been stricken down with illness, is showing symptoms of fever. ■Washington, September 12. Mr Griscom, the American Minister at Tokio, cables that the attacks of the rioters in the chnrches were largely due to sporadic antagonism to the Russian Church. The newspapers raised such popular expectations for a month past regarding the terms of peace that the dissatisfaction with the peace terms as concluded was all the greater, but the sentiments of the army, navy, and nobility are more moderate. Tokio, September 12. The Evangelical Alliance has ' resolved not to claim compensation for churches, schools, and missions destroyed by the rioters. The Emperor of Japan 7 has declined the Cabinet's offer to resign over the peace terms.