The Forrest City times., 1905-08-04
N. WiTTE REACHES AMERICA
He Explains Russis's Losses, and Says
 Russia IS Not Frustrated.

New York Aug. 3.-The Kaiser Will helm der Crosse, with Sergius Witte, the senior Russian peace envoy, ar rived in quarantine yesterday.
 On shipboard M Witte was general ly reticent when the subject of his mission was mentioned However. to an Associated Press representative who accompanied him from Cher bourg. NJ. Witte said:
 Almost everywhere in Europe. as well as in America, not only are Rus sia. her forces, her resources and her powers of resistance unknown. but the people are even mistaken about the true results of the war. Russia has had reverseS. but this does not signify that they have lost the power which belonged to the Muscovite em- pire before the war; it does not mean that Russia has become negligible quantity. nor that the Japanese have acquired by the result of the recent victories such supremacy as to make the Russian empire consider them truly redoubtable enemy"
 NJ. Nitte recognizes the sound qual- ities 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.
 Tt must be taken into considera- tion," said NJ Witte. that the Japa- nese had been preparing themselves for war about ten years while Russia was entirely unprepared. wishing and trusting in peace that the Japa- nese fought in their own neighbor- hood under all favorable conditions, while the Russians had to be sent 5000 versts from their headquarters by railroad entirely insufficient to their needs and to fight a colonial war with all co-efficients against them There is not in history another ex ample of similar disproportion be tween enemies. Nevertheless, all of the foreign officers of the European armies who followed the war are unanimous in affirming that the Rus sian troops. both soldiers and officers, fought with true, admirable bravery but they had to withdraw on account of combination of eircplmstances with which their personal valor could not contend.
 "On the sea the Russians found themselves constantly in inferior con- ditions. The squadron of Rojestvens. ky was sent against Japan not be. cause the Russians had much conf. dence in it's success but because they could not renounce from a military and moral standpoint of view any chance of obtaining even partial vie. tory
 Suppose for a moment that the war. instead of having taken place in Korea or Manchuria. had been fought at the true Russian frontiers, then the Japanese would not have been able to face the Russians for more than six months
 NJ. Witte indicated that he does not mean to say that he will not make every possible effort toward the con. clusion of peace. adding that he is favorable to peace as Russian and as man. having always worked to prevent war and understanding that at present the entire world desired tEe end of the conflict. However. he feels that to reach this object it is necessary that the Japanese should he animated ty the sanx feelings; that they should be convinced that for Russia it is desirable but is not at all indispensable, and that conse quontl> she will never accept any condition which even apparently may offend her amour propre