New-York tribune., 1905-07-17
ORDERS TO VI. UITTE.
EmperOr's Instructions SAID To Be
Precise -GermanY's 1ttitude.

St Petersburg July 16.-M. Witte spent an
hour with Mr.. Meyer the American Ambassador
at the Kleinmichel Palace to-day, discussing the
coming peace conference. Before starting for
Paris next Wednesday NJ. Witte will have still
another audience with the Emperor. In the
mean time he must pay a round of official visits
TO all the imperial ministers NJ. Witte is
pected TO be the bearer of personal message
from the Emperor to President Roosevelt.
The Associated Press is authorized by NJ.
Hartwig, director of the first department of the
Foreign Office. to deny the alleged instructions
10 NJ. Witte published in Paris by the Echo
de Paris" and elsewhere abroad. NJ Hartwig
said:
Reports pretending to reveal the character of
the instructions TO the Russian pleupotentaries
are mere guesswork. These instructions have
been seen by only four persons the Emperor,
NJ. Witte, Count Lamsdorff and myself. The
Echo de Paris's" report saws they consist Of Ave
pages, whereas they cover twenty pages.
The paper says the Instructions very vague
while on the contrary they very detailed.
On one point only. according to the Echo de
Paris" they absolutely specific. namely. as
TO the leveing of the fortfcations of Vlad-
ivostok. but l can say TO you that there
many others.
NJ Hartwig called the stories that NJ Mu-
ravieff's removal was the result of intrigues
started by Count Lamsdorff pure inventions
The "NovOsti" says it believes that the desire
Of the anti-German coalition which Great
Britain is trying TO engineer to restore Russia
a threat against German aggression should
be powerful diplomatic weapon in the hands of
the Russian plenipotentiarie;. The paper SAYS:
Europe wants to end the war, as Russia's
preoccupation in the Far East destroys the
political equilibrium. Austria is IN danger from
Germany, which seeks a thoroughfare the
Adriatic in exchange for compensation i'm the
Balkan Peninsula. Germany has pretensions
now which she would not have dreamed of be
fore the Russo-Japanese war 1t is evident from
the Morocco incident that Europe wants peace
in order that Russia may safeguard her against
German aggression.
Prince Mestcherslly, Editor Of "Grashdanin.r
in warmly supporting NJ. Whites appointment
calls him the only Russian statesman equal to
the task set him.
Reports are printed that NJ Putkovsky. for
merly Russian financial agent at New York. will
be added to the commission or will replace as
one OF the counsellors to the plenipotentaries
NJ ShipoT. director OF the Russian Treasury De-
partment. but these reports cannot be confirmed
tonight
Count Ignatief. instead of Prince Sviatopok-
Mirsky will succeed NJ. Bouligin as Minister of
the Interior. according to the "Slovo'
Prince Oukhtomsky. Editor of the ST. Peters
burg .Vedomost" has brought suit against the
.Novoe Vrenlya" and n. Skaalkovsly for SLAM
der
The "Bourse Gazette" prints a long article at
tacking the Northeastern Siberian Company Of
st. Petersburg. whose president is NJ. Contion-
livsky 5dmiral Abaza. of Yalu fame is among
the stockholders. che paper says the company
is really managed by John Rosin, IN American.
for the benefit of Americans. The "Bourse
Gazette" asserts that the company has taken
entire possession of the spacious Chuketsky
peninsula where mining privileges are denied
to Russians. 1t characterizes the whole affair
as "a warning against the American invasion
OF Russian territory. which IS connived a. by
the Yalu sconndrele.n