JAPAN AND RUSSIA

Temuka Leader, Issue 5289, 24 August 1905, Page 1

JAPAN AND RUSSIA

THE PEACE PROPOSALS. LONDON, Aug. 20. It is slated that King Edward, President Lou bet, and the Kaiser are urging St. Petersburg and Tokio to avoid failure of the Peace Conference, but there is no sign of concession as regards the indemnity.

M- do Vitto remarked that perhaps between now and Tuesday, some foreign power may use its influence. Talking to Japanese was like talking to graven images. The Atlantic and Pacific cables are overwhelmed with Peace Conference messages.

Aug. 21. The Times’ Portsmouth correspondent reports that a telegram received there this evening declares that the Council under the Presidency of the Czar, apparently unanimous, finally decided that further concessions are impossible.

Advices from Tokio state that a pub lie meeting opposed any modifications of the peace proposal, and declared the terms to bo the irreducible minimum.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. It is slated at Oyster Bay that before inviting Baron von Rosen, President Roosevelt secured the active and cordial support of Britain, Franco, and Germany, and communicated with the Mikado through the American Minister at Tokio, and Baron Kaneko. Baron von Rosen spent an hour with President Roosevelt on Saturday, and three hours with M. de Witte yesterday. Thereafter a message was despatched to the Czar. It is announced at Portsmouth that President Roosevelt’s proposition to Baron von Rosen to consult with him related to arbitration.

Aug. 22. Protocols are almost ready stating •I apan’s and Russia's views respectively on the four disputed points. Russia liases her objections to an indemnity upon, besides Professor Maartens’ contention, the argument that Russia, us she has not acknowledged defeat, has entered the conference owing to her love of peace, and is willing to conclude peace on a favorable bgais. TOKIO, Aug. 21.

Count Katsura, after an interview with Sir C. McDonald (British Minister), the Mikado, and prominent Japanese, informed Dr Morrison that when, the conditions of peace were drafted Japan brushed aside the proposals regarded as essentials, and reduced the terms to the smallest possible, the most reasonable, the most obvious.

THE MILITARY SITUATION. LONDON, Aug. 21. Three Russian officers who escaped to the mainland report that the Russian force in the interior of Saghalien occupies an almost inaccessible position, and is supported in every way by convicts. The Times’ military correspondent points out that the Russians arc still confronted by armies nearly twice the Russian strength. General Linievitch reports the annihilation on A-Ug‘ust 16th of a band of Chunchuses, including the leader, named Tmbatta, and two Japanese, in the Hailungchang district. TOKIO, Aug. 21. ’The squadron sent to Kamschatka captured the Russian transport Australia in Pctropaulovsk harbor. The Japanese newspapers urge the Government in the event of a rupture of the peace negotiations to seize the maritime province before the rainy season has ceased.