THE WAR ENDED

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1417, 30 August 1905, Page 2

THE WAR ENDED

Peace Treaty Agreed To Telegrams x from Seat of ''inference t c PRESS MESSAGE EXTRAORDINARY. • | 1 (Received This Day, 10.2 a.m.) { London, August 29 J Several telegrams which have' just been received from | Portsmouth, America, the seat of the peace conference, state f that Russia and Japan have agreed upon peace. The conditions < have not been ascertained. . ( THE REPORT CONFIRMED i ] ■ PRESS MESSAGE EXTRAORDINARY (Received This Day, 1,4 p.m.) London, August 29 The report that peace has been agreed upon is officially confirmed,

; ietiiig of Jap Cabinet Sharp Fall in Stock; St. Petersburg August 2!) Count Laindoiff s organ makeß a veiled allusion (o the possibility, of bargaining over Sagbalien. , TOKIO, August 29 3 Ministers and the older statesmen t at Tokio sat the whole of the monii ing, and then, under the Mikado's presidency, in the afternoon. 3 Sharp declines on the Tokio j Stock Exchange showed that peace j was considered hopeless, t Shares in the Exchange itself fell i 20 yen. 3 "" i'

The following messages were re. ceived last night and early this morning:— i » Russian Altitude Presi Association.—Copyright. London, August 29 The Tim® asks why the plenipoten* tiary made such disclosures of M, de Witte's attitude, and suggests that de Witte never intended or desired that the conference would lead to a settlement. , The Paris correspondent of tho Times declares that last spring a first-class authority on Russian affairs expressed his opinion that Russia would . never consent to an indemnity, because having onee paid it she would never recover it; whereas other concessions might be ovaded. The Times' New York informant added to his yesterday's telegram that he had heard unofficially that the new Anglo-Japanese alliance had not been signed after all. St Pktersisurg, Aug 29 The Czar, on the 19th, ordered the mobilisation of reinforcements for the Far East at Riga, Windau, Yilna, Grodno, Livonia, Perm,' Saratov, Astrakan, Limbirsk, and other centaes. Washington, Aug, 29 A statement has been issued at Portsmouth, obviously from a Russian source, that there has been some misunderstanding at Petershof re. garding the real purport of Mr Roosevelt's offer on behalf of Japan. When Mr Roosevelt suggested the cession of Northern Saglialien, leaving the redemption price to arbitration, this was interpreted at Petershof to mean an indemnity in the guise uf purchase money. The Japanese contend that Saglialien is de Judo Japanese territory, and thai Russia has no present means ofrecoveiin t. M. de Witte has accepted this view on principle, believing that Russia should pay something iu the nature of redemption money. The slalement adds that it is believed that Baron Komura has now been instructed to waive the question of reimbursement for the cost of the war, London, August 28 The latest Tokio reports Btates that there will be a decided rupture of the conference unless Russia speedily accepts Japan's terms, ■The Japanese press is warlike, Baron Takahira, in the course of an interview, said that the adjournment was duo to a desire to obtain full possession of the Mikado's views on the situation. M, do Witte told Baron Takahira that no delay could affect the position. Russia had said her lafj,. word. Jhe Russian plenipotentiary t'ofdthe New York correspondent of the Times that Mr Roosevelt thrice vainly appealed to the tor to change his mind, and that (he Czar, in making his answer to Mr Roosevelt part of tho p;oc.-w.!ings, deliberately denied himself all liberty to chanee. Indeed, ho desired to put himself beyond the power to change.