Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-08-18
RUSSIA YIELDS THE
MANCHUR|AN RAIL WAY

portsmouth, n H., Aug. 16.--The
prospects of peace are distinctly
brighter. The plenipotentiaries are
laboring with seriousness and earn
estness which leaves not the slightest
doubt that both are anxious to con.
Guide treaty. Though the main
points remain to be contested and the
plenlpotentiaries of each side speak
as though the conference would 60 to
pieces unless the other side give way,
the spirit of compromise is in the
air. When he returned to the hotel
last night, NJ. wife, who was tired
out with his hard days work said:
Il am doing all l can for peace. OF
the eight articles we have already
considered | have yielded seven. No
other statesman in Russia would
nave dared to do so much, and l
nave done what l have done upon my
own responsibility.
Articles and were disposed of
Today, the former "in principle" the
latter unanimously" according to
the official bulletins. Article provides
Tor the cession to China of the branch
OF the Chinese Eastern railroad run
ming south from Hardin to Port Ar
thur and Dalny, and with a branch
line connecting at Niuchwang with
the Shan Hail Kwan-Tien Tsin road.
| Article 8 provides for the retention
by Russia of the inc through north
ern Manchuria, which forms the con-
Meeting link Of the main line of the
transiberian and the Usurri railroad,
with its terminal at Vladivostok and
Harborovsk.
From both sides The Associated
Press is Informed that the acceptance
in principle" of article only means
that certain points remain to be ella
borated, not that a dispute still ex-
lists. But this may possibly be only
convenient method of postponing
until the final struggle. the accept
ance of an article which could be
used in the ultimate compromise.
Russia, by the acceptance of these
two articles, in connection with arti-
cles 2, 3, 4, and 6, surrenders every
vestige of her ambition in Manchuria.
She closes the door to the warm wa
ter ice free port of Dalny upon which
she lavished her millions and retains
only as commercial road, the link
of the railroad connecting her Euro
pean possessions with the maritime
provinces upon the Pacific. The right
to police it with Russian troops or
railroad guards is given UP and it's
protection will become the duty OF
China.
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 1S.-The
crisis in the peace conference has
been reached and pessimism Is again
the note The pessimism is based up
on the fact that no progress was made
yesterday. The exchange of views at
the morning session on article 8 IRE
Enumeration for the cost of the war;
showed at once that the plenipoten.
tiaries were as far apart as the poles,
and it was passed over. Article 10
(the surrender of the informed Russia
warships) was also passed, not, in
the opinion of one Of the plenipoten-
tiaries when The Associated Press
correspondent saw him last night,
because it could not have been ar
ranged, but because with the shadow
of the two points in dispute hanging
over the conference, both sides were
cautious and preferred to postpone it
to the end. Article II Limitation of
sea power) is also adjustable after
modification, and article IL will pre-
sent no difficulties. So that last
night the situation was practically
what it was when M. Witte last Sat
urday presented the Russian reply
with its non-possimus to articles and
9.
The only chance now is compromise
Russia to yield Sakhalin and Japan
indemnity. Neither will yield both,
and perhaps Japan at the final show
of hands will yield neither.