Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-08-07
MADE NO PREDICTION OF FAIL
URE OF MISSION.
GIVEN WARM WELCOME
Received With Cheers as He Steps
from the Transatlantic Liner
Speaks in High Compliments of
President Roosevelt and the Whole
American People.

New York, Aug. 3.-Sergius White,
Russian peace plenipotentiary, on his
arrival here yesterday afternoon, en-
phatically denied having said that
Japan's peace terms were intolerable.
He also denied positively that he had
predicted that the conference would
break up in a week. In an interview
lie said:
1T is in compliance with the Amer
lean peoples desire for peace, of
which President Roosevelt was the au-
thorized exponent, that his majesty
the cZar has empowered me to come
hitner and ascertain the conditions
which our gallant adversary deems
necessary and adequate as basis for
peace negotiations. / need hardly
point out that it is my ardent desire
that the two chiValrous foes, who first
became acquainted on the field of bat
tie, may have found in each others
sterling qualities, motives powerful
enough to cultivate that acquaintance
ship. Meanwhile, however, the terms
offered must first be ascertained,
weighed and judged by Russia before
she can proceed to fOrmaI negotiations
Hitherto, as are you aware, it was Gus
tomary in cases like this to settle all
such preliminaries before the meeting
of the plenipotentiaries, whose task 1t
+<,o
the matters under discussion. Now
the fact that his majesty, the car, con-
scented to take a course involving de-
parture from this ancient diplomatic
usage and to appoint a mission to
learn the nature OF the brave enemy's
terms, is an eloquent token of the
friendly feeling which he and his sub
jects continued to cherish toward the
people of the United States. / say
continue to cherish, because at no ep-
och in our history have our traditional
relations with this great republic been
other than cordial. And now / should
like to say, aye, and to prove to your
people, who live less in the past than
in The present and future, that it is
the fervent wish of the emperor and
the people of Russia further to
strengthen the ties of friendship
which nave hitherto subsisted between
the two nations.
1T is in virtue of that desire that
his majesty the car, waving all other
considerations, has unhesitatingly ac-
cepted the cordial invitation Of your
first citizen ana genial leader, and ii
my mission should prove in all other
respects barren and the endeavor to
find common basis for peace negoti-
atoms should fail for the time being,
the signal proof OF Friendship given
by his majesty the car AMI the Rus
sian nation would still stand out as
memorable event, fraugnt, | trust,
with far-reaching and beneticent re
suits to the two great peoples of the
west and east"
Received With Demonstration.
Clothed with plenary powers, per
sonally prepared and signed by his
sovereign, Sergius White, Russias
ranking plenipotentiary to the Wash
ington conference, landed here yes
ter0ay from the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse as quietly and democratically
as the most humble of his fellow pas
sengers. Mr.. Lodygensky, the Russian
consul, and members of his staff went
down the harbOr in a revenue cutter
in the morning, officially to greet the
distinguished envoy and was received
by NJ Witte on the deck while the
Kaiser Wilhelm was at quarantine. M.
Witte was handed important dispatch
es from st. Petersburg, which he
opened, read and quietly put into his
pocket.
Awaiting Nj. White at the dock was
Baron Rosen, Russian ambassador at
Washington, with his first secretary.
Baron Rosen came on board as soon
as the ship reached the dock and cor
daily greeted his cOnferee and the
members of his suite. After major
ity of the passengers had landed, M.
White came down the gang plank on
the arm of Baron Rosen, followed by
the suite, but soon founded mis- pas
sage impeded by a tremendous crowd
which cheered him and whose greet
ings he smilingly acknowledged by
lifting his hat. Policemen cleared a
passage to the automobile which was
awaiting the party outside of the dock
Midway down the pier the procession
was again stopped, this time, however,
by a delegation from the Slavonic so
ciety of New York, who presented M
Witte with an address. The Russian
envoy made brief but cordial re-
Spouse.
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