Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-10
WE SHALL WIN
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lent desire that arbitration might be
reSOrted TO in the case Of the present
war in the Far East. Lord I.ansdoWnc
continued: Mr.. Chpate walked into
my room yesterday and asked me if
We would sign an arbitration treaty
With the United States. Simultaneous
~ | received from President Roosevelt,
whom 80 all most heartily congratu-
lat" Crh"t rs) message inviting us To
participate III Il second international
peace conference at The Hague. 1t is
needless 10 say that the invitation has
not been refused only we have reserv-
what subjects would be discussed. We
hesitatrd not moment in informing
America that we ara ready to partici
pate and in wishing President Roosa-
Welt Godsr.-d in this undertaking. Ar
bitrati0tl'' concluded Lord I.ansdoWn",
after a sympathetic reference to
| Frances assistance. in the \Crth sea
! dispute, has become the question:
| London. Nov 9.-t9l3 p. MD-At the
lord mayors banquet 1T Guilhell, to-
| night. Foreign Secretary LansdoWne
III inc absence Oh BI'lliit'i I'dil'ui, VIM
| by the advice Of his physician, is still
II st ing his injured leg, was the princi-
nal speaker The 80 guests included
the archbishop Of Canterbury, the
members of the cabinet, the foreign
representatives. members Of Parlia
ln-nt and other prominent persons.
After the usual loyal toasts, Secre-
tary Arnold Foster said it was the de-
termination Of the army council not
to r,.St until the British army was
ready To enter the field at any time
with absolute confidence in success.
Lord LanSdownc, responding to His
MajeSty'S ministers, referred to the I'M
fortunate absenc" of Mr.. BalfCur, who.
in spite II his illness had not ceased
to actively participate in the affairs
of the country.
Continuing. the foreign secretary
said that while London was principal
| " Interested that peace should prevail
evcryv- h.ra he did not think they
| should think of peace at any price.
AT this moment" said Lord Lans-
dow ne. contemplating the progress of
! the terrible struggle between two brave
| and gallant nations. in the Far East
| can one of us contemplate without re-
gret the legion after legion of brave
| men being led forth to meet their fate
| and the ruined homes and broken
| hearts? W" can conceive no more ter
rible punishment than the renorse Of
any minister or body of ministers. who
| from loss of temper ana desire of popu-
| larity, Brought upon the country the
scourgc and calamity Of needless war.
"At this suspicious moment ! am
able To announce to you. that. not only
| the peace of the country is unbroken,
hut. So far as am able to foresee, there
is no reason why it should not remain
unbroken. Not only have we had the
good fortune to avoid war. but by the
arrangements. we done some to restrict
the area of hoStiliti"S.
The country. however. has not all
together escaped anXietieS. For the
last few days we have been face to face
with an incident, which moved the peo-
pie of this country as few other Incl
dents have done. The incident of oct.
u. in the North Sea. was an attack
on British citizens and an affront to the
British flag, which. if intentional. I
would rather not contemplate the con-
sequences. 1t was Il deplorable and
unaccnuntable blunder but am bound
to add that recent evidence has salts
fled the British government that the
Russian government believed that the
facts We're different from what we sup
posed aud that each party was con-
WINGED of the justice of its own cause.
Great Britain has adopted the only
course in referring the matter to an in
dependent and impartial tribunal and
we found no difficulty in arriving at
the principal questions. nor in decid-
ing that the terms for their reference
under The Hague convention were
such as We could accept.
After detailing what would be the
procedure of the court, Lord Lans-
downe referred to the Smallness Of the
number of Russian officers left at Vigo
and said:
1t was not for us to assume the re-
sponsibility for the selection of the Of
fcers. That rested with Russia and if
would be a great mistake to relieve her
OF the responsibility
The foreign secretary added that the
government has received distinct as
suranc during the last day or two that