Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-11

SOtIi DIS lflt Jopdft'St ttllllS WciS
their hands called il the five expert
delegates attached to the mission and
passed the whole afternoon in the con-
Sideration of the terms. Meantime. the
conditions had been placed in cipher
and cabled to Emperor Nicholas with
NJ. Whites personal recommendations.
1t is hoped that 4 reply will be received
from the Emperor, tomorrow, in which
case NJ. White expects to have the Rus
sian response ready by Saturday, but it
is not unlikely that Saturday being the
first anniversary of the birth OF the
Tzarevitch the presentation of the reply
will be deferred until Monday. Meantime
the plcnipotentiaries will not meet unless
some unexpected necessity for Il confer
ence should arise. The japanese pleni-
potentiarieS manifest not the slightest
annoyance at the prospect of a few days
delay. They realize how serious the issue
is and are perfectly willing to give their
Russian colleagues ample time for con-
sidcration.
NJ. Witte and Baron Rosen had, yester-
day. accepted an invitation to dine with
Assistant Secretary of State Pcircc and
in spite of their arduous labors at the
navy yard, today, they kept the engage
ment At 9 o'clock, upon their return to
their quarters in the hotel. they plunged
again into their work and the lights in
their rooms burned long after midnight.
Much excitement prevailed about the
hotel corridors OF the hotel. which Were
thronged with summer guests and news
paper correspondents, all discussing and
Specializing upon the terms; while off the
corridors dozens of telegraph instruments
were clicking off dispatches to all quar-
tiers of the globe. The Russian and Jap
anese Observation-Disclosures denied themselves
to callers. no statements were issued and
only to Il few We're the substance OF
Japan's conditions known.
The Associated Press learns from 4
most authoritative source that the ini-
tiativc of the decision taken by the peace
conference to keep in absolute secrecy
the details agreed upon by the plenipo-
tentiaries was proposed by the Japanese
representatives. The Russian representa-
tives had no special interest in main
tanning secrecy but as the conference is
the union of two parties. the Russians
thinking that they had not the right of
ODDOSlng the desire OIL the JhIdilfAt, IstN'
consented to this proceeding.
With regard to the frequent inter-
views with Mr.. Sato and the other Jap
anese delegates which are appearing in
the press Il prominent parsonage be-
longing to NJ. Whites suite made the
following statement:
."Throughout the war, the japanese
oil off in fhair "
or TO win the press to their side. They
have proceeded in a fashion quite COM
preh,nsibla from their point of view,
but less SO from that of the public
which has swallowed what they have
pleased to furnish. OF course. the peo-
pie of all countries, in America as well
as in Russia. are readily susceptible to
n propaganda of ideas, no matter how
false they may be.
For instance. the papers of the last
few days have contained an interview
with Mr. SatO. in which he says that
Russia must pay war indemnity. be-
cause she is at the end of her resources,
and that the Russian representatives,
although making wry faces, will have
IN nav. even If the word indemnity is
not used.
.'It is not possible to suppose that Mr..
Sato wilfully mistates facts and the
most charitable view is that he is bad
| Nv Informed. He probably does not
know that Russia in all her history.
never paid a war indemnity. She did
not even pay an indemnity to Napoleon
Ithe Great, when. in 1912. with his army,
he invaded Russia and entered Mos
cow.
eft is, therefore. difficult to suppose
that Russia will pay an indemnity to
| tho Japanese when the chief of their
| army. Marshal Oyama, who. notwith-
| standing the respect due him. is not
| NAPOLEON the Great. up to the present,
| after n wear and n half. not only has
| not entered Moscow. but has not even
reached the real Russian frontier. In
| deed in the last four months. he has re-
| manned near Tunzhilin. more than 1000
yerstes from that frontier. not daring
| IN attack General Linevitch. Mr.. Sato
| IN his ignorance, probably does not
| tnow that two years after the entrance
of Napoleon in Moscow. the Russian
army in 1914. entered Paris and de-
| throned the great warrior"
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