Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-22
IDENTICAL NOTE DEMANDING
HEARING IN PEACE CONFER
ENcE SENT TO NEUTRAL
POWERS.
JAPs NEAR THEIR GOAL
MIkado's Ships Are Sighted at the
Mouth Of the Amur River and Many
Inhabitants of NikoIaievsk and vIad.
lvostok Have Fled to khabarovsk,
Fearing Death.

oyster Bay, July 21.-An Identical
note from the Chinese foreign office to
the powers neutral in the pending far
eastern conflict has been advised by
the President. The note will be con-
sldered by the President and Secretary
Root at their meeting today What at
tltude the government will assume to-
wards Chinese protection. cannot now
be predicted. The note demands that
emma be given hearing at the forth.
coming peace conference.
Jaos Near vIadivostok.
Copenhagen, July 21.-A dispatch
from st. Petersburg says private ad-
vices received there say Japanese
warships have been sighted near Miko.
/ laievsk, at the mouth of the Amur
river. Many of the inhabitants Of
MikolaievslI and Vladivostok have fled
to Kharbarovsk
461 Russian Prisoners.
Toxic, July 21.---It is officially an
nounced that the Russians who have
thus far surrendered on Sakhalin is-
land number 461, including fifteen Of.
| fcers
Russians Fight Fiercely.
Toxic, July 81, A telegram from
Otaru says the Russians defeated
at Dalfne were about 500 strong. with
SIX field and three machine guns. TAX
4 Ling full advantage. of the Topographic
cal character of the district they Of
fered the most desperate resistance.
The fighting lasted from 6 a. M. on
July Z until O'Clock the next morn
1 ing, when the Japanese secured vic.
tory. capturing four field guns and one
machine gun.
Japs Take Great Risk.
The victors were exposed to great
disadvantage and risk
1t is believed, owing to the short
supplies of ammunition and provisions
that the Russians at Sakhalin can not
hold out much longer
Japenese ENJOYS Reach Seattle.
Seattle. Wash, July 21-Baron j.
komura, foreign minister Of Japan
and one OF the twJ Japanese peace
commissioners, is buried beneath q
mass OF diplomatic correspondence at
the residence of S. Hisamaidzu, Japan
ese consul at Seattle. Baron Komura.
is working with cablegrams and letters
which reached him when the steam-
ship Minnesota arrived at Port Town
send. Consul Hisamidzu, who was
carried out to meet the Hill liner by
the revenue cutter Arcata, took with
him only part of the correspondence
that has been awaiting the peace en-
voy. Komura and his party carried
with them mass of unfinished busi-
ness to be taken up again in the Great
Northern train en- route east The
private car Of j. j. Hill, in which the
party Is proceeding east, is the am.
bassador's working Office
Given Enthusiastic Welcome,
Baron Komura was welcomed at Sex
attic when the Minnesota reached the
port, by more than 1000 Japanese. On
a tug in the harbor a small crowd of
, Japanese exploded day fireworks I'M
| honor of the party and a band inter-
. spersed Japanese and American airs
. as musical welcome. Mayor Cal.
!, linger on behalf Of the city welcomed
the diplomat at the gangway and a.
I. special train brought him to the city.
i A fixed policy has been agreed upon
by the members Of the delegation re-
i garding interviews. Baron Komura
has determined not to give out any
u interviews in America relative to
peace negotiations or the war condi-
tions.
Russians at Paris.
/ Paris, July 81 M. Witte and
party, on the way to the United States
/ arrived here this afternoon at 4
o'clock. A large number Of French
and Russian officials, members Of the
diplomatic corps, assembled at the sta.
i ton.