Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-20
OFFICERS MUTiNY
Russian Army Protest Con-
 stant Police Duty.
JAPAN NOT TO HUNILIATE RUSSIA
Oyama's Line, Stretching Across Man- churfa to Sea of Japan, Envel0ps Linevitch's Whole Force
 In Its Folds.

, churia to Sea of Japan, Envelops Linevitch's Whole Force Tn It's Folds.
 LONDON, June 20.-A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that several hun
 dred army officers held a meeting at
 Krasnoye-Selo, sixteen miles from St.
 Petersburg, to discuss the situation ere
 ated by recent events and to protest against their constant employment in
 the role of police. General Pehbinder,
 commanding the guard, ordered the
 meeting dispersed on the ground that
 It was illegal. A group of officers
 stepped forward and declared that they
 were all faithful subjects of the en-
 peror, but could not remain in the po-
 sition of military policemen. It was
 a position, they said, which complete
 ly isolated them from society, toward
 which they practically sustained the
 role of butchers. General Pehbinder
 compelled the meeting to disperse, but
 promised them speedy opportunity to
 meet legally.
 The war party has by no means sur rendered. On the contrary. it is mak- Ing concerted effort to dissuade the emperor from concluding peace. Even with the two armies already clinching, they are filling St. Petersburg with op- timistic views, and General Linevitch and his lieutenants are re-enforcing their arguments with roseate reports of the strategic situation.
 A report here says that Japan's terms of peace will prove to be more moder- ate than has been expected and will be based on the propositions made in the Japanese note on the eve of hostili- ties, with the addition of an indemnity covering the cost of the war. Japan will not insist on humiliating terms, such as the cession of the island of Sakhalin, the disarmament of Vladivos- tok or the limitation of Russia's naval tights in the Pacific. but will insist on guarantees against the renewal of the war for half century at least.
 A Lidiapudzy Manchuria dispatch Iays that the Japanese are advancing from the center and westward and are driving in the Russian screens south ,f Palitun. Farther west they turned the Russian extreme right at Liao- Tangwopeng, fanking the Russians out of position after nightlong fight. The Japanese force consisted of an infantry division, four batteries of artillery and thirty squadrons of cavalry. General Mistchenko's cavalry subsequently re- trieved some of the lost ground and recaptured the town of Liaoyangwo- 2eng. During Mi -chenko's operations Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, representing Emperor William with the Russian army, received his bap- tism of fire.
 According to information received at KeGdqHSffers, the Japanese are. nsov.s;. sovsrs. ; Ing northwest in three columns, which include 10000 infantry and correspond Ing forces of cavalry and field and mountain artillery. These columns are heading for Chutsami. Kmesan and Kenshan to complete the line of Oya. mas army stretching from the Mongo. lian frontier to the sea of Japan.
 A St. Petersburg dispatch says that when Emperor Nicholas received the semstvo deputation Prince Troubet- skoy, president of the zemstvos con- gress of the Moscow government, in behalf of the Moscow delegation ad. dressed the emperor in lengthy speech. in which he described the seri. ous conditions existing in Russia which nave caused the zemstvos to approach his majesty directly. His majesty re- piled, expressing deep regret at the great sacrifices consequent on the war and. above everything. at the disaster to the Russian navy. In conclusion the emperor said:
 ''I thank you. gentlemen. for the continents expressed, and I join in your desire to bring about a new order of things My personal wish and my will as emperor to summon a national assembly is unshakable. I await with anxiety the carrying out of this my will. You can announce this to the in- nabitants of the towns and villages throughout Russia. and from today you will assist me in this new work"