Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-03
WHY HER SOLDIERS WITHDRAW
Combination of Circumstances" and
Not Lack of valor, Responsible For
Lack of victories-czar's Govern.
ment Does Not Yet Regard Japanese
as Redoubtable Enemies.
tBy Associated Press. !,

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NEW YORK. Aug. 1.-THE Kaiser
wilhelm Der Crosse with Mr.. Scrgius
Wittc, the senior Russian peace en-
voy on board. arrived in quarantine
this afternoon. Mr.. Wittc was in goni
health. The ship had good passage,
the sea being smooth, except Oh Sat
urday and Monday, when ii was Il little
rough
On ship board Mr. Wittc was gen
orally letccnt when the subject of
his mission was mentioned. How
ever to an Associated Press core
spondcnt who accompanied him from.
Chcrbourg. Mi. Witte said:
"Almcst everywhere in Europe as
in America, not only Russia, her
forces her resources and her power.
To resistance are not known. but the
true results Of the war.
Not Negligible Quantity.
The Russians have had reverscs,
hut this does not signify that they
10 the Muscovitc empire before the
war; ii does not mean that Russia
has become negligible quantity. no,.
that the Japanese have acquired by
the result Of their victories such Il
supremacy as 20 make the Russian
empire consider them truly redouht-
able enemy"
Mr. White recognizes the good quail
tiles of the Japanese military, naval
and administrative organizations, and
does not believe any other European
nation would have been able to resist
Japan as Russia has done
Russian Troops Are Brave.
All the foreign officers of the Euro
pean armies, he said, who followed the
war were unanimous In affirming that
the Russian troops, both soldiers and
officers, fought with admirable bravery,
but they had to withdraw OH account
OF combination of circumstances
with which their personal valor could
not contend On the sea the Russians
rior conditions. The squadron of Ro-
jestvensky was sent against Japan not
because the Russians had much con.
hdencc in its success, hut because they
and moral point of view any chance
no matter how uncertain, of obtaining
Il partial victory.
The Japanese, he declared, have not
made such progress as was generally
believed; in fact they would have TO
advance four times as much rs they
have done in The last year and n half
to reach Russia proper, in which case
alone they might consider themselves
in position to impose the conditions Of
peace.
Russia's Internal Conditions
According to the Russian plenipo-
tertiary. those who do not know Rus
sia well, oppose 10 these reasons the
spectre of the internal conditions OF
the empire, imagining all kinds of
cataclysms, but even about this, ne
said, they were mistaken.
NJ Wittc did not wish to discuss
at this time the events in Russia, AT.
tirming. however, that they have not
the character nor the gravity attrib.
uted to them.
NJ. Witte indicated, Notwithstanding
these views that he does not mean to
say that he will net make every possi-
Bile effort towards the conclusion of
peace, adding that he is favorable to
peace rs Russian and rs man, hav.
ing always worked to prevent war and
understanding that at present nearly
the entire world desires the end OF
the conflict
Will Work For Agreement.
aFIe repeated that he will honestly
do all that his conscience may suggest
to bring about If possible an agreement
which may be equally satisfactory tC
the interests of Russia and Japan
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