Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-07-27
Peace and War Notes.

After consulting with her ministers
in Europe and America the Chinese
Government has notified all the Powers
that she will not recognize any peace
arrangement regarding Manchuria, over
which she claims absolute sovereignty.
Chinese imbecility brought on the war
between Japan and Russia, and now
that the Big Bear has been whipped,
she is getting brave
The alleged peace plenipotentiaries are
to meet at Portsmouth Navy Yard next
month, but we doubt if anything but a
disagreement results from their meet
ing. NJ. W1tte. one of the Russian
plen's, was in Paris, last week, and out
lined the method of procedure as fol-
lows:
Japan is to first state her terms very
Ikely) to which N. Witte, after COM
municating privately with the Gar by
cable, and after conferring with Baron
de Rosen, his colleague, and with NJ.
Pokotiloff, his financial adviser, who
was formerly director of the Russo
Chinese Bank, and with the Russian
representative at Peking, will make the
Russian counter proposition, This re-
ply will contain among other important
concessions a proposal to hand over
Manchuria, lock, stock and barrel, to
China, charging China sum consider
ably exceeding $1,000, 600, 600 for rail
roads and other betterments construct
ed during the Russian occupation. In
other words, Russia hopes to secure
from China a large portion of the war
indemnity that she will eventually be
compelled to pay over to Japan.
Meanwhile, during the sittings of the
Portsmouth conference, there will be
innumerabls kilograms, emanating
from the headquarters of General
Linevitch and from st. Petersburg,
representing the Russian army in Man
churia as in splendid fighting condition
and confident Of victory; for General
Linevitch and his 400, 600 men constitute
the sole trump card remaining at the
disposal of Russian diplomacy.
Car Nicholas asked Emperor Will
liam to meet him, and they went in
their yachts to point in the gulf of
Finland, and talked the matter over all
night. No statement has been made
concerning the purport of the conversa-
ton and none is likely to be made
Whatever the czar may have desired to
consult his imperial neighbor about, it
is not probable he desires to tell. st.
Petersburg reports say. however. his
people have not been pleased at the
meeting of the monarchs and are ready
to resent any interference in their af-
fairs by the king of Prussia.
Baron Jutaro Komura, Minister OF
Foreign Affairs and one of the peace
plenipotentiaries of Japan, and party
passed through Pittsburg Monday
night on the New York flyer, the
Pennsylvania 1S-hour train. \
The party was met in New York by
Kogoro Takahira, the japanese minister
and taken to Oyster Bay to see Presi-
dent Roosevelt. From there the party
will go to Portsmouth. N. H., where
the peace conference will be held
Baron Komura stopped long enough
in Chicago to say some things the
American people have been waiting to
hear since the Japanese pleuipotentiaries
landed, and not the least important of
his utterances relates to the immigra-
tion of his countrymen to America.
The Baron maintains that if jap
anese protectorate is established over
Korea it will form an outlet for the
surplus population of the Empire. and
there will be little if any immigration
to America This is important if it
proves to be true. 1t is possible that it
is backed by careful study of the sit
uation and thorough knowledge of the
facts. If the japanese desire to settle
on the mainland near their old homes
they will have ample opportunity to
expand their energies in building up the
Hermit Kingdom without the handicap
that might attend their appearance in
America in large numbers. They
would also be available in assisting the
japanese Government to hold the ter
ritory which, the utterance of the Baron
appears to indicate, it is determined not
TO relinquish.
LONDON is to have $120, 900, 900 worth
of additional railways, subway and sur
face, which indicates that that town is
growing.
The first canvass of Philadelphia dis
closed 81, SIT illegal names on the Reg
istry lists, and another canvass has been
ordered
The Steel Road.