The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-09-07
NOW WORKING
ON TIE TREATY
CONSIDERABLE DETAIL TO BE
WORKED OUT IN ELABoRA-
TING ARTICLES.
DISAPPOINTMENT IN JAPAN
'f
EVEN RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
RECEIVES PEACE TERMS
cOLDLY.
ARM1s1lcE NOT ! ARRANGED
MAY BE CONCLUDED DIRECTLY
BY GENERALS ON FIELD OF
BATTLE.

Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. Actual
work of drafting the Treaty of Ports
mouth" began yesterday. 1t is being
done by MI. De Martens and Mr.. Den
nison, acting as legal advisers for the
respective sides. While the bases"
of peace have been accepted by the
plenipotentiaries, considerable detail
remains to be worked out in the elab-
Grafton Of the articles of the treaty.
This is especially true in regard to
the articles dealing with the Chinese
Eastern railway. and the surrender of
the leases of the Liaotnng peninsula
n.y.. Mr.. Pokotiloff, the Russian min
lister to Pekin, who was formerly man.
ager of the Russo-Chinese bank at Pc.
kin and who has intimate knowledge
of all the details relating to those mat
tiers, is assisting Mr.. De Martens.
Anomalous Situation.
A very anomalous situation exists as
to the impression created by the con-
clusion of peace While the outside
world %applauds, in Japan there is evil
IDENTIFY great disappointment in the
terms, and in Russia, where it would
seen that there should be universal re-
joicing over the great diplomatic vic
tory Mr.. Witte has won, the govern
ment seems to have received it coldly.
With the people it will make Mr..
White a great and popular figure and
add to his ~laurels, but at court evident
ly the very victory that Mr.. White has
achieved makes it all the more bitterly
resented.
1t is an open secret that when the
emperor appointed Mr.. Witte chief
plenipotentiary, the military party"
Expected Him to Fail.
They did not want peace, and it was
freely predicted in st. Petersburg
when Mr.. Witte left that he had been
given an impossible mission: They ex-
pected him to fail in the negotiations
or to make a bad peace" and either
would have spelled political ruin. In
stead, upon the very terms upon which
the emperor told Mr.. Meyer he would
make peace and upon which the mill
tary party did lot believe it possible
PSoSS ~ NC hC6OIldtCu, NIL. SRllJS
succeeded in securing a treaty honor
able and, under the circumstances.
favorable to Russia. This has evident
ly only eXasperated his enemies the
more, and intrigue is again at work to
discredit him. Since Japan was in a
conciliatory mood they now say he
made a mistake in surrendering half
of Sakhalin. Yet he did so by the
czar's orders and himself insists that
personally he would have
Stuck to the End
to his original declaration not to cede
territory. or give indemnity.
Not a word or line about the receipt
of the news zones out of Japan. In
view of the situation both Toxic and
st. Petersburg alarmists are inclined
to make much of the facts that the
minutes of Tuesdays fateful meeting
have not been signed by the plenipo-
tentiariesl of the two powers. It is
pointed out that either side could still
~repudiate the agreement, but both
plenipotentiaries refuse to admit even
the possibility of such a happening.
The armistice was not arranged yes
terday and it is not improbable that
the armistice will be concluded direct
ly by the generals on the field of bat
tie.