The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-31
GEAR ACTS on PEACE NEWS.
Dismisses Reserves and Sends Out Nouo<
Of an Armistice.


Dismisses Reserves and Sends Out Notice
Of an Armistice.
SpsetaJ Cable Dsspoteh 70 TIE sun.
ST. PzrsHsBuRo, Aug. so.-The national
sense OF relief that costly and ingenious
war has ended naanifestA itself quietly and
without rejoicing
The most startling circumstance In con-
neotion With the reception OF the news Oh
peace 10 the bitter vexation openly aus
played In court orioles. The news OF Japan
sensational step yesterday struck tho I'M
psrial household like q thunderbolt. Inc
circles which had seconded Cen. Linievitoh
In his militant assurances Of ability to re-
trieve the glory Of tho Russian army. and
which had just secured the Cars signature
to q great mobilization scheme. are to-day
in a state Of CONSERVATION ct The spectacle
of Russia at peace after . war In which she
has lost every battle. Their feelings may
be best understood from the pregnant 70
mark Of distin guished European diploma
tist hero:
Japan has acted With her usual sagaoaty.
She had already secured al that she mad
gone to war for, and when she became
convinced at the conference that Russia's
rulers did not desire peaos she quietly made
peace herseif.'
The Emperor, accompanied BY Count
OriofY. went In an automobile from Feter-
hof to tho military camp at Krasnos-
selo this morning. and ordered the
newly mobilised troops to Be dis
charged from military duty. He an
nounced that al ressrvists summoned for
.ctivs service would b released on the
day peace vas sisned. He informed The
camp commandant that Con. LanSevitch
had been notified Of the armistice, and
Marshal Oyama likewise.
Mr.. Witte sent the following message to
the Slopo: -,
.Hurrah! Tho japanese give way. We
have coded half OF Sakhalin without sou
Of indemnify
LONDON, Aug. 3i.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent Of the Standard says the view
that Russia achieved q great diplomatic
victory At Portsmouth Is deprecated at the
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, the accredited
spokesman OF which says:
we made weighty concessions, and nm
alIv reached our limit. The question was
whether Japan would meet our CONCESSIONS.
We regarded the chances as being even Until
the Anal news came. 1t 10 impossible to
speak Of diplomatic victory or defeat.
The correspondent adds that It u tho
opinion Of rejecting observers In st. Peters,
burg that the continuance Of tho war for
an indemnity would have been doubt
ful policy, especially considering the pos
sibility Of Russia becoming 70 exhausted
as to be unable to pay Japan. who would
have been forced to take territory. Of which
she now has enough. It ID held that the
japanese displayed their usual sasacity.
Tho Ministry Of War declares that tho
repatriation Of tho prisoners held BY the
Japanese will probably be chiefly by sea-
foreign transports being used for the pur-
pose. Tho fears that the returning SOL
dfsrs will support revolution are probably
exaggerated.
The S.. Petersburg correspondent OF
tho telegraph says that the public accepted
peace like sunshine or rain. The subject
awakens not nearly 20 much interest as an
average cricket match In England.
The newspapers in their comments are
insinoere or meaningless. The Nationalist
press IL unable to swallow its disgust that
its fine colonial dream has vanished. The
Opposition papers are silent, a. II b too early
to begin twitting the Government with
its failures.