The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-08-04
PEACE ENJOYS
soon TO CONFER R
PLANS COMPLETE FOR COMING
MEETING OF RUSSIAN AND
JAP COMMISSIONERS.
Are Expected to Reach Portsmouth
August 7-Komura's o@ctal
Spokesman Says Japan's Demands
Will Not Be Excessive.


Spokesman Says Japan's Demands
Will Not Be Excessive. .
Washington, July 2S.-Arrangements
were completed here Thursday for con-
veying the peace ENJOYS OF Russia and
Japan from New York to Oyster Bay,
where they will be received by the pres
ident, and from there to Portsmouth,
N. H. The details were arranged at q
conference participated in by Acting
Secretary of State Pierce, who has been
commissioned by the president to ar
range for the meeting of the ENJOYS;
Acting Secretary of the Navy Darling,
Rear Admiral Converse, chief of the bu-
reau of navigation; Rear Admiral Sigs-
bee, commanding the squadron of the
North Atlantic fleet, from which vessels
have been selected for the conveyance
of the plenipotentiaries, and Command
er c. MGR. Winslow, commander of the
Mayflower According to the of{icial an
nouncement subsequently made, the
Russian plenipotentiaries and suite will
embark on the cruiser Chattanooga.
commanded by Commander Sharp, at
the foot of Twenty-third street, New
York city, at nine a. m, on August 5, the
Japanese plenipotentiaries embarking
at the same point on the cruiser Ia
coma, commanded by Commander r. F.
Nicholson, an hour later, arriving at
Oyster Bay within half an hour of one
another. After luncheon, to be given by
the president on the Mayflower, is over,
and the president has departed, the Jap
anese plenipotentiaries and suite will
embark on the Dolphin, commanded by
Commander Gibbons, the Russian pleni-
potentiaries and suite remaining on the
Mayflewer, when they will proceed to
Portsmouth, conveyed by the cruiser
Galveston commanded by Commander
w. G. Cutler, which will arrive of Oys-
ter Bay on the evening of August 4. A
slow run north will be made, so that
Portsmouth will be reached on the morn
ing of the 7th, where they will be re-
ceived by the admiral commanding the
Portsmouth navy yard, within which
the negotiations for peace are to be con-
Quoted.
Japan's Demands.
New York, July 2C.-That Japan
will demand an indemnity of Russia
In the negotiations for peace, and that
the war will be declared at an end at
the conclusion of the negotiations at
Portsmouth, N. H., next month, is the
belief of Baron Komura, head of the
Japanese peace delegation who ar
rived here Tuesday, as voiced by
Aimar Sato, who is the official
spokesman for the baron on this mis-
sion. Mr.. Sato in an interview said:
Il am confident that peace will be
successfully negotiated by the ap-
pointed delegations. The Japanese
will be guided by moderation, but the
sentiment in Japan and Russia is for
peace, and in the interests of human
ity and propriety there must be peace.
The cost to Japan, however, has been
very great. On both sides, the loss in
men has been $4,000, Russia's alone
being 100000 of these. The war is
costing Japan 100000 a day, and
there is a feeling that there ought to
be an indemnity"
Asked as to the possibility of an
armistice, Mr.. Sato said that probably
would be among the first questions
the plenipotentiaries would consider.
AS to Japan's attitude toward Amer
lea, Mr.. Sato laughingly asked: "You
mean the yellow peril?" and then be-
came more enthusiastic in his con-
versation than upon any previous
topic. He said: I'VE are almost boy.
ish in our enthusiasm and friendship
for America. While we are friendly
with China as orientals, our greatest
friends are America and England.
Why, the first monument ever erected
to a foreigner in Japan was that to
Commodore Perry, and the policy and
conduct of the American people for
the last so years has been one of help
to us. We regard America as an ally
without treaty"
The question was put to Mr.. Sato
as to any possibility OF conflict with
the United States in the future. as
suggested by some of the American
press at the outbreak of the war, and
Mr.. Sato asked what could bring about
such a conflict.
Interview with Mr.. Witte.
London, July 31.-The Daily Tele'
graphs correspondent on board the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, on which
M. White, the Russian peace plenipo-
Tertiary is a passenger, sends an inter
view which he has had with M. Witte,
in which the latter said that if Russia
and Japan had agreed upon common
basis before appointing peace pelnipo-
tentiaries, it would have been much
better. As it was, M. White said, he
regarded himself rather as an imperial
courier sent to ASCERTAIN the terms OF