Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-11
SICK AND WOUNDED
Fill The HOSPITALS
Dispatch From the Russian
Front Says 2o,550 officers
and Men Are Sick
WELCOME PEACE
eoLJD,sRs
pffiesrs Apparently Do Not Relish
Conclusion Of Hostilities, but Rank
and File are ovsrjoyed and Daily
Drink q the Health Of President
Roosevelt.

St Petersburg Sept. IA dispatcli
from csodyzadani OF September 8, only
]. ! small portion of which was allowed
fo pass the st. Petersburg censor, says
on August IA there were 2o,55O sick
and wounded officers and men in all
& the military hospitals.
Godeydia. Manchuria, Saturday
/ sept. 9.--At o'clock this afternoon
4 q Japanese messenger bearing q white
( nag and escorted by fifty soldiers ar
rived at q post near the railway and
handed to the Russian officers who
/ went to meet him letter from Field
y Marshal oyama to General Linevitch
scongrstulating him on the conclusion
81 peace and begging him to appoint
Russian plenlpotentiaries to. arrange
an armistice. Field Marshal oyama
Appointed General Fukushima as plen-
: ipotentiary for his side, the letter an
1 nounced, and he suggested Chakhedza
Is the meeting place.
General oku,s Headquarters in the
L Field, Sept. 8, IL a.. nj Delayed In
b ransmission.) - General Fukushinla
left Kaiyuan today for the north to
meet the Russian generals and arrange
\ the details OF an armistice. General
4 Eukushinaa positively refused to allow
1 press correspondents to accompany
him. The correspondents are still
u kept thirty miles in the rear of the
army. which has not yet been informed
OF the signing Of q peace treaty The
terms OF the treaty Will probably, prove
10 be unpopular, but no demonstration
& II feared.
Lidiaputz, Sept. n.-Chinese and
Japanese merchants are assembling
/ large stocks OF native merchandise.
souvenirs, etc, near Tie pass for sale
Ito the homegoing Russian soldiers.
Thei general staff Of the Russian
army Is preparing complete records
od the campaign. It is the purpose
not to conceal the truth, but, on the
contrary. to record all faults with a
II view to preventing their repetition in
! future campaigns. Full reports for
the press are also in course of prenar-
alton.
News Welcomed il tho Army.
Gunshu Pass, Manchuria, Sept. IL
Since news was received that peace
y negotiations at Portsmouth We're APP
proaciling q conclusion the cores
! pondent OF the Associated Press has
+ made q survey of all the Russian
positions from Mongolia to head
quarters, the object in part being to
ascertain the extent to which the
efforts making for peace were viewed
by, the army. The negotiations re-
ceivedS no official recognition In the
field prior to their successful conclu-
sion, the army keeping in q state OF
nreparedness for battle until the
receipt by General Linevitch of tel
erram from Emperor Nicholas declar-
ins that the treaty had been signed
and that his majesty accepted the
conditions arrived at. This telegram
Wa officially published in the army
nAWspaper on September s, and the
outlines Of the peace conditions were
!, nrtnted IN the SAME publication yes
\. The officers thereafter observed
n,iIitnry decorum. in the strictest
sense but the soldiers with the con-
I .ent of the OFFICERS, engaged in feast
ing and other forms OF celebration.
i III Will OG a WGch DSAoiS Viz SAASAN
army is fully informed OF the conclu-
sion OF peace. but the news was dis
counted long since by the prevailing
conviction that since the appointment
of the plenipotentiaries peace was a
foregone conclusion. 1t may be said
that to the great majority Of the Of
ficers and men, so far informed, the
news that the war is at an end is most
welcome
Daily Drink to Roosevelt.
& Thousands are daily drinking to
The health Of President Roosevelt. The
correspondent, who is the only remains
ing foreign newspaper man with the
Russian army, was everywhere asked
by the men If he was an American, and
on being answered in the affirmative.
they captured him and tossed him
many times in the air after the manner
Of the Cossacks. while their officers
gently protested against this seemingly
questionable form OF their admiration.
Everywhere along the railway where
newspapers could be obtained the SOL
diers eagerly scanned the news. and
then expressed their joy by singing,
which they continued late into the
night, at intervals cheering for Pres