Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11
PEACE NEWS CHEEREO
Linevitch's Soldiers Drink
Roosevelt's Health.
N A M E A P PLA u D ED
FEAsTING AND OTHER FORMS OF
CELEBRATION.
Fourth Siberian Army Corps Reviewed
Russian Internal Affairs Cause
Apprehension.
N A M E APPLAU DE D

ria. September 8 delayed says: Since news
was received that the peace negotiations at
Portsmouth were approaching conclusion,
the correspondent of the Associated Press
has made a survey of all the Russian posi-
tons from Mongolia TO headquarters, the
object in part being to ascertain the ex-
tent to which the efforts making for peace
were viewed by the army
The negotiations received no official rec
ognition in the field prior to their success
full conclusion, the army keeping in state
of preparedness for battle until the receipt
by General Linevitch of telegram from
Emperor Nicholas declaring that the treaty
had been signed and that his majesty ac-
cepted the conditions arrived at. This tele-
gram was officially published in the army
| newspaper on September g. and the outlines
of the peace conditions were printed in the
| same publication today.
The officers thereafter observed military
decorum in the strietest sense, but the SOL
diers, with the consent of the officers. en-
gagged In feastfng and other forms OF cele-
braton. 1t will be week more before the
entire army is fully informed of the conclu-
sion of peace, but the news was discounted
long since by the prevailing conviction that
since the appointment of the plenipoten-
tlaries peace was a foregone conclusion. 1t
may be said that to the great majority of
news that the war is al an end is most well
come
Thousands are daily drinking the health Of
President Roosevelt. The correspondent,
who is the only remaining foreign neWSpa-
per man with the Russian army, was every
where asked by the men if he was an
American, and on being answered in the
affirmative they captured and tossed him
many times in the air after the manner OF
the Cossacks, while their officers gently
protested against the seemingly questions
BILE form of their admiration. Everywhere
along the railway where newspapers could
be obtained the soldiers eagerly scanned the
news and expressed their joy by singing,
which they continued late into the night, at
Intervals cheering for President Roosevelt.
With the exception of the loss of cap
tain and two orderles on the east front
within the past two weeks and Of nine men
In the center week ago there have been
no casualties. The cessation of hoStilit1eS
was preceded only by unimportant recon-
noissances involving small parties of scouts.
Care has been taken to prevent further loss
Of life.
east OF HAflungcheng and between the Rus
sian lines along the Vladivostok railroad
and the Japanese positions In the Chang
pashan range it will require some time to
reach all the elements operating in the in
terests of both armies and in restoring the
regions occupied by both TANKS to order
The officers are holding races at Toershu
and at other places.
EourIn corps reviewed.
The 4th Siberian Army Corps, which
played a conspicuous part throughout the
war, was reviewed September by its COM
mander, General Zaroubaieff, who has won
high fame throughout the army because of
his prominence in the battles of Tatchekiao
and Liaoyang, in the protection Of Mukden
and in the retreat from that place The
general Is mentioned as among the first
who will return home. The disability of
General Zerpflsky has steadily increased,
and he Will be compelled to return to Eu-
rope. This officer was noted for his singu-
lar bravery throughout the war. He was
wounded at Mukden, where he lost three
fourths of his 10th Army Corps. 1t is re-
ported that General Linevitch will leave
soon. The general staff is engaged in plans
for changing the commanders throughout
the army. preparatory to evacuation.
Among the soldiers generally there is a
feeling of apprehension regarding the in
ternal affairs of Russia. and many of them
have expressed a desire to remain in Man
churia Indefinitely.
Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia who
hasNbeen with the army since the beginning
of May, has announced his intention of re-
turing to Germany.
After a prolonged war on an enormous
scale and after the great preparations
Gently made to continue the struggle the
Russian army, in complying with the condi-
lions of peace, surrenders two complete po-
SltlonS with field works of vast extent and
even more intricate than those at Lao
yang, besides positions of great strength
protecting its communications but notwith-
standing this, the correspondent found
among both officers and men a generally
prevailing sense of the remark able fairness
of the conditions by which the terrible con-
test has been brought to a close. The adj
vocates of further fighting, however, seemed
to be convinced that the flower of the Jap
anese army had gone, leaving only old re-
servists and inferior recruits, while the con-
slant strengthening .of the Russians with
young recruits, they believed, gave them
large balance Of power which would en-
able them not only to fight one more great
battle, but to enforce peace thereafter. The
impression prevailed among these war adj
vocates that the army was nearly twice its
real size and their feeling Of strength was
due to this exaggeration of the facts
Since the reception of the emperor's testi-
mony of the bravery and self-sacrifice of
the soldiers and the declaration of the final
acceptance of the peace terms, the army
has become obediently passive. All peace
news, except that direct from the ministers
or the emperor, is placed at the end of the
dispatches printed In the army publication
and is given as little prominence as pos
sible
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