The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-08-22
NO HOPE IN PEACE
OUTLOOK
Envoys Will Meet Again
Tomerrow But Little
Chance Of President Saw
ing Situation
JAPAN WILL NOT YlNB
NOT ONE KoPEcK" IS EHE RUS
SIAN REPLY TO THE DEafANB
FOR AN INDEMNITY.

PORTSMOUTH. N. H., Aug. q, 1865.
Mr.. sato announced at 1920 o'clock
this morning that the meeting Of the
peace conference set for 3 O'Clock to-day
was adjourned till tomorrow, owing to
the impossibiIlity of having the protocols
ready.
According to the programme aaRounces
after the adjournment last Friday, this
win be the last session of the convention,
a purely formal meeting held for the pur-
pose of signing the protocols of agree
ment and disagreement The session may
continue over several days. but by legis-
lative fiction it win be called that Of
single day, in order to simplify the rec
ord
If that programme is carried out the
Portsmouth conference might endsfo-
morrow, and at the outside could hardly
last over Saturday. To-day everybody,
not only here but pretty generally over
the civilized world. is asking. will it be
carried out?' There is no evidence to
the contrary here No one will lose ali
hope of peace until the ENJOYS have sack
ed their trunks and departed, for ters
is always the possibility that one side or
the other is working a diplomatic bluff.
President Roosevelt's interest in the
conference is another factor TO be reek-
d,
watching Oyster Bay for some move
there that might revive the waning hopes.
The feeling this morning was thar the
chance of peace was never so remote
When he came back to his quarters
from last Fridays meeting Mr. Witte
conference, as far as the envoys were
| concerned. was over. They disagreed alb
solutely on four points of the Japanese
/ demands; all that remained to be done
was to hold formal session at which
the protocols might be s;gned II -'7-
the secretaries time to write up these
documents a three days recess was TAX
en-. The well informed here had little
hope then that in those three days any
thing would occur TO reopen the discus
sion and bring the ENJOYS to an agree
/ ment
This morning the Russians said that
the situation was unchanged, and they
are the people who hold the key to it.
for Japan will not yield an inch from
her demand for Sakhalin and an inden1-
/ nifty. Not one kopeck,n is the Russian
reply to the demand for an Indemnity,
under whatever name.
Mr. Witte said briefly to-day: ssThs
situation is unchanged. Russia will not
pay a cent
Baron Komura is silent. but his atti-
tude is well known and the chance Of
Japan yielding on any vital point is
hardly considered at all. One report was
current to-day that the Gear in his de-
spatches yesterday to his envoy included
an appeal to St Petersburg by Gen. Lin
ievitch that no peace be made until the
army had had another chance.
What is known here of the attitude in
st. Petersburg gives a little hope, and
that vague one. that after all the Rus
sian Government is working huge blufE,
and when the moment of the last breaA
comes and it sees no chance Of Japaa
yielding will suddenly break down and
consent to an indemnity. In that cass
the whole discussion would be reopened
and the conference would continue fO1
many weeks.
So the recess passes with No change
in the gloomy outlook The great evegt
of the three days-indeed Of the whole
CONFERENCE.-THE President Roosevelta
conciliatory effort All kinds Of stories
have gone out from here as to what the
President proposed to Baron Rosen dur.
ing the conference at Oyster Bay On
Saturday, but one by one they are being
| disproved.
The truth as it is knewn now from Mr.
Witte's own lips is that the President
merely heard Rosen's report of the pre-
eeedings and then in friendly way dis
cussed the unfortunate differences ana
rendered his good offices. In rendering
his good offices he did not propose thai
he be allowed to act as mediator q
that the dispute be settled by arbitration
The President sent no formal commune
cation of any kind to Mr.. Witte.,
Baron Rosen on his return here report
ed what had occurred. aud no proposities
of any kind on the Presidents 5. part wa
/ forwarded by the envoys to St Peters
burg. 1t is pointed out thar any com
munication from the head Of the Ameri
can Government 10 the Russians woult
be made not through the Russian peac
envoys here, but through Mr.. Meyer
our own representative at st. Peters
burg.
It was understood this morning tia
the next session might be a very shor
one. This did not Indicate that ther
was any hope of possible outcome Es
sulting from delay 1t was Thought fo