The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-02
COMPLETE ACCORD
ON ALL QUESTIONS
Peace Conference Will Now Proceed to
Elaboration of Treaty--Japan
Yields Indemnity.

Portsmouth, Aug. 29.-The official
bulletin of tnday's session Of the peace
conference is as follows:
At the session OF August 80 the con-
ference arrived at q complete accord
on all the questions, and 1t has been
decided to proceed to the elaboration
Of q treaty.
Portsmouth, N. a., Aug. 29.-The
Japanese yielded practically every
thing. They accepted the Russian Ill
timatum, no indemnity and the divi-
sion Of Sakhalin without payment of
redemption money.
The Japanese also yielded interned
warships and Limitation OF naval power
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 30.-The
long and bloody war between Japan
and Russia is ended.
The terms of peace were agreed up
on by M. Witte and Baron Komura at
the session of the conference yesterday
morning, and in the afternoon prelim-
mary arrangements for an armistioe
were concluded and the actual work
of framing the "Treaty of Washing.
ton" was by mutual agreement turned
over to Mr.. do Martens, Russia's inter
national lawyer, and Mr.. Demmison.
who for twenty five years has been the
legal adviser of the Japanese foreign
office.
The happy conclusion of the confer.
ence, which a week ago would have
been shipwrecked had it not been fol
the heroic intercession of President
Roosevelt, was sudden and dramatic
For the sake of peace Japan, with the
magnanimity of a victor, at the last
moment yielded everything still at is.
sue.
Gar Refuses to Bulge.
Russia refused to bulge from the
ultimatum Emperor Nicholas had Civ.
en- to President Roosevelt through Am.
bassador Meyer. No indemnity under
any guise, but an agreement to divide
Sakhslin and reimburse Japan for the
maintenance of prisoners were his last
words. They had been repeatedly re-
lterated in M. Whites instructions, and
on request for a written reply to the
Japanese compromise proposal Of last
Wednesday they were delivered to Bar
on Komura yesterday morning. M
Witte went to the conference declaring
that he was powerless to change the
dot of an "i' or the cross of st" in
his Instructions. Emperor Nicholas
word had been given not only to him
but to President Roosevelt, the hea6
Of foreign state.
When Baron Konura, therefore, frs,
offered the new basis of compromise
outlined in the Associated Press dis
patches last night (the complete re-
nunciation of indemnity, coupled witt
a proposition for the redemption Of
Sakbalin at q price to be fixed by 9
mixed tribunal consisting of represen
tatives of the neutral powers, in fact
if not in words, offered by the presi
dent), Mr.. Witte again returned a MOI
pOssumus.
Thought u Had Failed.
It was what NJ. Witte termed in hi
interview with the Associated Press
the Psychological mor.ent." M
Witte did not finch. He feared q rup
ture, and as he expressed it afterward
he was stunned by what happened
Baron Komura gave way on all dis
puted points.
With the prescience that has enabled
the Japanese to gauge the mental pro
cesses Of their adversaries on the flelt
of battle and upon the sea, they hat
realized in advance that peace could
be obtained in no other way. They
had warned their government. Presl
dent Roosevelt has also, it is believed