Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-31
ARE FRAMING
THE TREATY.
Martens and DennisOn, Legal
Advisers, Working on II Now
Japan Disappointed.
WITTE is PRAISED

tens and Mr.. Dcnnison, acting as leSa
advisers for the respective sides, ar
working on il. While the bases o
peace have been accepted by the plen
ipotcntiaries, considerable detail re
mains to be worked out in the elabora
ton of the articles of the treaty. Thii
is especially true in regard to the arti
Giles dealing with the Chinese Eastern
railway and the surrender of the leases
OF the Liautong peninsula and Por
Arthur and Talienwan Port Arthur
NJ. pokotiloff, the Russian minister Il
Picking, who was formerly manager o,
the Russo-C Chinese bank at Peking anC
who has intimate knowledge of all the
details relating to those matters, is as
sisting NJ. de Martens.
A very anomalous situation exists as
to the impression created by the con.
clusion of peace. While the outside
world %applauds, in Japan there is eyi
IDENTIFY great disappointment in the
terms, and in Russia, where it would
seem that there should be universal re
joicing over the great diplomatic vic.
tory NJ. White has won, the govern
ment seems to have received it coldly
With the people it will make NJ. White
a great aud popular figure and add to
his l~aurels, but at court evidently the
very victory NJ. White has achieved
makes it all the more bitterly resent
ed. 1t is an open secret that the mill
tary party" hates and fears Witte and
that when the emperor appointed him
chief plenipotentiary they expected
him to fail. They did not want peace,
End it was freely predicted in st. Pc
~tersburg when NJ. Witte left that he
had been given an impossible mission
and sent to America to break his
neck" They expected him to fail in
the negotiation or to make a dad
peace" and either would have spelled
political ruin.
Instead, upon the very terms upon
which the emperor told Mr.. Meyer he
would make peace and upon which the
military party did not believe it posi-
BILE for peace to be negotiated NJ. White
succeeded in securing Il treaty hOnora-
bic and under the circumstances favor
able to Russia. This has evidently only
eXasperated his enemies the more, and
intrigue is again at work to discredit
him. Since Japan was in a conciliatory
mood they now say he made a mistake
in surrendering half of Sakhalin. Yet
he did so by the cars orders, and
himself insists that personally he
would have stuck to the end to his orig
| inol 1ncIop rattan not 10 cOHA fo,p.itOpxr rr
give indemnity.
In Japan the situation is reversed.
The government recognized the advisa-
bility of concluding peace over if all
demand for indemnity had to be with
drawn. But the people were incensed
even at the suggestion of the division
of Sakhalin, That was evident from
the expression in the Japanese press
Tuesday. And that was before there
was even a suggestion of waving de-
mand for any indemnity whatever. To-
day Tokyo is silent. Not a word or line
about the receipt of the news comes
out of Japan. The government has its
hand upon every wire. And among
those who best know Japan here it is
ominous of the popular wrath the re-
ceipt of the terms of peace has raised,
and they recall with Il shudder past
tragedies when ministers have been
unpopular. In view of the situation
both at Tokyo and st. Petersburg
alarmists are inclined to make much
Of the facts that the minutes of Tues
days Hateful meeting have not been
signed by the plenipotentiaries of the
Two powers. 1t is pointed out that eli
Their side could still repudiate the
agreement, but both plenipotentiaries
fefuse to admit even the possibility of
such a thing happening.
One additional and interesting nc
well as important detail in regard TO
the conditions of peace and most i'm
portant of all is the fact that the
formal recognition of Japan's possess
sion of the Chinese Eastern railroad
below K~uenchengtse, the junction of
the branch to Kirin, involves payment
by Russia to China of a sum estimated
at $15,000,000. This is the Chinese in
terest in the road and for it China
must be remunerated,
The question of the ultimate possess
sion of the road is a matter TO be set
lied between Japan and China. Japan
can keep the road or surrender it to
emma, demanding in return the money
paid by Russia to China. If she elects
the latter course Japan will therefore
OBTAIN as an Indirect ''spoil OF war
from Russia the above mentioned sum
IN addition to reimbursement for the
cost Of maintaining the Russian pris-
oners of war, for which Japan will
present an itemized bill. Japan is
known to have given her word to
CHINA not to retain the railroad, which
was really built for strategic purposes
but II iii prefers the money TO the
railroad Japan could not be accused of
pad faith. Inasmuch as japan was
deslrous even before the war of ex-
tending the then projected Korean
railroad (Which is already in opero.
tom so as to eventually connect with
the Eastern Chinese and Shanhaik wano
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