Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-07-31
BRlTONStBACK JAPAN.
England Stands by Tokyo No
Matter What Demands Are.
VICTORY FOR MIKADO At RYKOFF.
Japan Not TO Insist That vIadivos-
tOk Defenses he DfsmantIed, but
Will Claim sakhaIin-Russia
VIII Oppose Its Cession.

assured that whatever her peace terms
they will have the sympathetic APP
prevail of Great Britain.
Several suggestions from Washing
ton to London that the cause Of peace
would be served by an expression to
Japan from her ally favorpg modera-
ton In her demands upon Russia have
not awaited to change the British gov
eminent In its apparently inalterable
determination to stand by Japan how
ever severe she makes her conditions
of peace.
Advices reaching here show that
London is opposed to an armistice un-
til Japan has been satisfied that Rus
sia's plen~ipotentiaries are prepared to
do more thar discuss means of ending
the war. If Russia is ready to con-
clude peace and has so empowered her
plenipotentiaries, Great Britain, it is
believed, might favor an armistice, but
even In such event 1t Is said she would
not be willing to offer Japan advice
on the subject.
AS understood In Washington, Lord
Lansdowne's position is that as the
loyal ally of Japan Great Britain can
afford to take no step or assume any
attitude that would in the remotest
degree rebound to the advantage of
Japan's enemy.
Nor is this attitude on the part of
the English. government misinterpreted
in Washington as indicating that it's
officials do not share in the wish of the
neutral powers for peace.
1t has been made plain that the &c.
tivity Of the president has the full
sympathy of the British people, al
though their first thought, it is declar-
ed, must be in the interest of their ally.
AT the same time the English gov
eminent has not hesitated to declare its
confidence that Japan's terms will not
be- unreasonable, viewed in the light Of
the results Of the war. AS it was re-
Gently expressed by one cognizant with
} the British attitude, England has new
er, either in the negotiations preceding
the war or since the IA began, found
Tokyo assuming an unreasonable posi-
ITEM
n N4 Dtllcb luS, aS OLtClui. WdoAlnStOl
does, that Japan will not insist on the
: dismantlement- of Vladivostok should
Russia fail to agree to it in return for
the naturalization of Port Arthur, the
session Of Sakhalin, which, it is under
stood, will be among the essential con-
ditions of peace, will, the officials here
believe, prove the most serious obsta-
Gle to peace in the far east. Sakhalin
had not been captured when the presi-
dent initiated his efforts to bring the
belligerents together, and Russia will
bitterly oppose its eession.
A wireless message from the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse says that M.
White, interviewed on board, very de-
liberately stated in regard to the peace
talk:
| "If l knew that l was going to nego-
tate with Japan's plenipotentiary L
r should feel much more hopeful as to
the results than / do, but such Is not
the case.
Usually the way is when plenipo-
tentiaries meet that they come to a
give and take within certain sharply
defined limits, and they generally agree
in the end.
Contrary to usage, however, Japan's
representative and myself are setting
out without any such preliminary I'M
Outstanding. We have no common ba-
sis whatever, and therefore u pow
ers, or at any rate mine, are very
complete. But in spite of this full
ness of powers 1 feel that my role at
the outset is that Of IN imperial courier
sent to learn the terms on which the
mikado's government is. ready to make
peace.
"The very fact of my being dispatch
ed on such an errand is a conclusive
proof that the sincerity of my imperial
master is beyond question"
Tokyo reports say that dispatches
from the Japanese army headquarters
have been received as follows:
"Our independent cavalry which en-
tered the town Of Rykoff, on Sakhalin
island, withdrew on finding the condi-
ton of the city ~unfavorable to it's &C.
cupation. Our army, intending to
crush the, enemy's forces before they
retreated from the eminences west of
Rykoff, commenced to advance at 3
a. M. The van. together with an indie
pendent body of cavalry, advanced by
forced march, attacking and d~islodging
the enemy, holding the northern ex-
tremity of Rykoff, and rushed into the
town, Confused street fighting en-
sued, but the town was completely
taken at. $50 O'clock in the morning. /
"The enemy's main forces, which OPP
posed our right column, fed in disor
der southwark, taking the short route
leading to Pareono. i
IA detachment which was sent south
in pursuit fof4 the. enemy met the enc
my's infantry, some 500 strong, at a.
point six miles south of Rykohf and:
killed over 200 and captured 800.
'The enemy's strength opposed to
our right column was Of some 5000
infantry and four guns and four ma