The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-03

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M EW YORK. Aug. when the Kaiser
IN Wilhelm der Crosse arrived at her
pier, NJ. Witte handed to Professor
De Martens the following statement.
which Professor De Martens read aloud:
For the friendly greetings Of the
American newspapers upon my first visit
70 the hosDitable shores OF the United
KIND attention touches me all the more
PROFOUNDLY because 1 realize the VaStness
nlted states and admire the keen in
telngence with which it is uniformly d.
rected. / am glad to be able to add that
also appreciate the ethical worth of
the aims of the attainment of which that
power IS so often and so successfully
One of the noblest of these aims is
tne establishment of peace and friend
ship among nations, and il is to the
pralSeworthy efforts of the people of the
United States in this direction that my
Nislt TO the new world Is attributable.
r or II is in compliance with the American
peoples desire for peace. of which Presi-
cent roosevelt was the authorized eX-
empowered me to come hither and ascer-
tam the conditions which our gallant ad-
necessary
basis for peace negotiations.
Hopes For Peace.
II need hardly point out that it is my
foes, who first became acquainted on
the field of battle, may have found in
powerful enough to cultivate that ac-
qualntanceship until il ripens into lasting
friendship Meanwhile, however, the
terms Offered must first be ascertained,
weighed and judged admissibIy by Russia
before she can proceed TO formal negotie.-
tons Hitherto. as you are aware. il was
customary in cases like this to settle all
such preliminarites before the meeting of
the plenipotentiaries whose task IL was
70 come TO final agreement on the mat
tiers under discussion.
Now the very fact that his majesty the
car, consented to take a course invOlv-
ing departure from this ancient diplomatic
usage and to appoint a mission to learn
the nature of our brave enemys terms is
an eloquent token of the friendly feeling
which he and his subjects continue to
states l say to cherish because at no
epoch Of our history have our traditional
relations wit hthis great republic been
other than cordial And now l should
like to say, and to prove to your people
who live less in the past than in the pres
ent and the future. that II is the fervent
wish of the emperor and the people of
Russia further to strengthen the ties of
friendship which have hitherto subsisted
between the two nations
1t is in virtue of that sincere desire
that his majesty, the car, waving all
accepted the cordial Invitation OF your
first citizen and genial leader. And if
spects barren and the endeavor to find
common basis for peace negotiations
should fail for the time being the signal
proof of friendship given by his majesty,
the car. and the Russian nation would
still stand out as memorable event.
fraught. trust with far-reaching and
beneficent results to the two great peO-
pies OF the west and the east"
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. with
vi.
this afternoon. Mr. Witte was in good
health. The shin had a good passage.
being smooth except on Sunday ard Mon
On shipboard NJ. White was generally
reticent when the subject Of his mission
was mentioned. However, to an Asso-
ciated Press correspondent who accom-
panied him from Cherbourg, NJ Witte
"The Russians have had reverses, but
this does not signify that they have lost
the power that was known to the Mus
covite before the war. does il mean
that Russia has become a negligible
quantity nor that the Japanese have ac-
ouired by result of the recent victories
such a supremacy as TO make the Rus
sian empire consider them a truly re-
doubtable enemy
Japs' Good Qualities
NJ. White recognizes the good qualities
of the Japanese military and naval or
CARNATIONS and does not believe any
other European nation would have been
able TO resist Japan as Russia had done.
NJ White, that the Japanese had been
preparing, for war for about ten years
while Russia was entirely unprepared.
wishing fer and trusting in peace The
japanese fought in their own neighbor-
hood under all favorable conditions
VersJs from their headquarters over
railway entirsis- insufficient to their needs
and to fight a colonial war with all CO.
efficisnts AGAINST them. There is not in
history another example of a similar dis
proportion between enemies.
Nevertheless "a foreign nj
the European armies who followed the
war are unanimous in affirming that the
Russian troops. both soldiers and officers.
fought with bravery but they had TO
withdraw account of a combination
of circumstances with which their per-
sea the Russians found themselves con-
stantly in inferior conditions. The squad
ron Of ROjestVensky was sent against
Japan. not because the Russians had
much confidence in its success, but be-
cause they could renounce from a
chance. no matter how uncertain, of OBJ
tanning even a partial victory
Suppose for moment that the war,
instead of having taken place in Korea
or Manchuria, had been fought at the
true Russian frontier. Then the Japan
csc would not have been able to face
the Russian forces for more than six
months. However. even as things stand.
the japanese have not made such pro-
gress is generally believed: in fact
they would have 10 advance four times
as much as they have done tp the last
year and a half TO reach Russia proper,
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