The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-01
TALKS OF GREAT INDEMNITY.
JAPANESE EDITOR WOULD ASK
THREE BILLION YEN.
Ber N Ko'nura Has slight Cold and Can.
GELS Dinner Engagement Puz-
lied by Interview Credited to Witte
Baron ROsen Declines 10 Talk.


T; -on Komura. the Japanese plenipo-
toni Try to the coming Portsmouth peace
cor renee got back from Peekskill Sun
,aA evening just In time to get good
oi.t' ~ In the violent storm that was rag
,, tie on that afternoon. The conse-
a.. was that he caught slight cold and
O.. led an engagement he had partially
r; for last evening to attend one OF the
M : family party Japanese dinners
to who he has been invited since he ar
ri,ee here In New York.
He will, however. attend the reception
that is TO be given IN his honor at the Nippon
Club this evening, provided the cold proves
not to be serious.
.You $780," said Mr. sato at his regular
I o'clock newspaper symposium yesterday
afternoon, -the Baron cannot AFFORD to
he seriously i'll just at this particular time
and therefore is taking no unnecessary
cha noes az to his health"
After the second Japanese Club reception
to him on Tuesday evening there will be
no more festivities for Baron Komura, even
CT The very intimate kind In which he has
thus fer INDUCED, until he goes to Oyster
Lay on Saturday next.
The interview with M. Witte which was
frrg cut into the air In midocean on Sun
cay ky wireless biography, was submitted
to Mr.. Sato yesterday for whatever oon-
mems he might choose to make upon 1t.
A reI resenting Baron Komura and the
,arnnt 70 peace commission Mr.. Sato had
no. hing whatever to say. Speaking for HIM
q l., however, and with no light whatever
ns 20 the Japanese peace terms. Mr.. Sato
tailed Of M. Whites interview freely
tnorgh.
Il link some things he Is quoted as
IN. ne said Mr.. Sato, must have got
,an~'ed In the air. For instance, one
fathcrs from a portion OF the interview that
he repre- sents himself as coming here merely
e. a courier. whatever that may mean.
IN, wi ,out any powers whatever to make
eace. Then, again, In another portion OF
L." in.erview understand him to DO quoted
S. ,a,. ,g that he has full powers. That
teer.,s 20 be an evident contradiction.
a.v own personal belief is that he comes
love v.th full powers just as do our own
eN,G. =. 1t was only on the condition that
ti'p iv sian representative be clothed with
IT, Lovers that Japan consented to the
CON conference. l understand the con-
fnr'as,. to be a peace conference. pure and
~
a ash, on which a peace conference may
G h,c or course II 1t is discovered that
NJ y lie has not full powers to conclude
PEI there will be an end OF the conference
ut ,nce just as there was in the case OF the
war wi'h China.
-Ur curse it is quite natural to suppose
that Gu ring the progress Of the conference
there nay be many things to be referred
back TO the Governments both Of Russia
and Jspan. but in these days Of cables
thot * only question OF few hours at
most
mir witte is quoted said a reporter.
cas- saving that while he was ready to deal
In n l,rdnesslike manner with claims Japan
might advance on the basis OF military and
naval successes actually achieved. he
martls based on expected successes. Now
where will the line Of Japan's demands
Gas cd On military and naval successes be
Grawnt VIII 1t be drawn at the time OF
.Japap. a. eptance Of the proposition for
the prseht conference. at the actual time
Of The he meeting nee Of the conference next week.
- ,e liking entirely on my own response:
l.l;ty,' Mr.. Sato replied, I should think
tie II ilitary and naval successes which
in the terms OF the peaoe settlement would
be tn, - actually accomplished not at the
time OF Japan's consent to the conference
nor at the time Of the assembling Of the oon-
iereed. but at the time the documents
concluding poaoe: were aotuai!y aigneo'
1eIt r,erely the concession OF all that she
DEL. a,,ded in her ultimatum preceding
t,e o ening Of hostilities?"
-Sroalsng for myself alone, should say
decidedly not" replied Mr. Sato.
.Ar. Ishikawa, editor Of the Toxic Hochi
sh,mLxn--"newspaper report Mr.. Sato
t,trs lates tin an interview yesterday
e,Iokc very freely Of the demands on Rus
tia hich the people of Japan expected
' ND be made.
NJ. J ihikawa said. that unless thoroughly
tp,i actory terms are reached there should
fe 70 peace. 1t is the general opinion In
.nJ an that 1t is too early for peace. We
must have Hardin and Vladivostok first.
mi ition Of the Russians will start them
.t.i gain. By more battles we must stop
tic Russians once for all. Others say
Il Gro u no use in continuing the war, but
y ~ not like the idea Of ever fighting the
Iu;. ans again, once the peace has been
s'cr' .-ed.
-lr the present Government ministers
accent any terms that do not meet the
app, oval OF the people they will undoubtedly
lie llIrned out OF Office. The. very least
a1,o'nt Of indemnity a1S the people expect s is
the actual cost of the war Some even de-
mard 5000, OOO, 900 yen, but that is too high
a figure A moderate one would be 5000, :
Coo,1 90 yen. Then Sakhalen must be coded
for two reasons. In the first place It was
excl anged by Russia thirty years ago for
the Chi Shima archipelago, but the islands
then given by Russia to Japan for Sakhalin
really belonged to Japan all the time, and
II WIS only Because Japan was at that time
erI, id Of Russia that the exchange was
mae. But Japan has not forgotten, and
row that she has her hands on what she
has never ceased to regard as her own ter
,itory by right she will not let It 60.
ssAkhalin In the possession Of Japan
vii! make tremendous difference In Japan's
!. r, teSio position from o naval point o.
vie =. II will insure her supremacy In the
Sea OF Japan. Port Arthur must remain
a japanese possession. fortified and In the
ha- de- OF the Japanese army and navy"
When Mr.. Sato's attention was called to
this interview he merely said
That Is the expression OF one editors
vie 70. There are, Of course. many views in
ia, an, both among editors and among the
! e pie generally, as to the proper terms Of
iseace. This is only one Of them. How
ins nv more people may share this editors
vi. VS. have no way Of knowing"
aaron Rosen Of the Russian peace COM
n sion remained in the st. Regis Hotel
v, ,terday. declining to discuss the coming
{, Inference in any way whatever. He has
tnIaged q suite Of rooms for M. Witte
1. j the other ENJOYS in the st. Regis