THE JAPO-RUSSIAN WAR

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11636, 14 August 1905, Page 5

THE JAPO-RUSSIAN WAR

THE QUESTION OF PEACE.

Peace Thought Impossible.

Russia Rejects Important

Demands.

Prospect of a Prolonged War.

Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright.

Received August 13, 4.5 p.m.

LONDON, August 12.

Renter's Agency at Portsmouth has ascertained that M. de Witte is returning as non possumus the demands for an indemnity and the cession of Saghalien; but accepts as a basis of discussion other points in the Japanese proposals. These included the cession of Russian leases in Laiotung Peninsula; the evacuation of Manchuria; the retrocession to China of any Russian, .privileges in Manchuria, and a recognition of the open door; the cession to Japan of the Chinese-Eastern railway below Harbin, the main line through * Northern Manchuria to Vladivostock remaining Russia; the recognition of a i Japanese protectorate in Korea; granting | of fishing rights to Japan in the waters of the" Siberian littoral northwards of Vladivostock to .the Behring Sea; therelinquishment to Japan of interned warships; the limitation of Russia's naval strengtH in the Far East.

The Times' St. Petersburg correspondent says that there is a general impression that an agreement is impossible.

Other advices state that the Russians accept with quiet resignation the prospect of a prolonged war.

Many are convinced that the disclosure of Japan's terms is bound to make war more palatable to the country. •