The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-18
ARTICLE ELEVEN.
Deadlock on Limitation of Rus
sia's Naval Power.
Remains UnbrOken at the Peace
Conference.
WILL TRY 1T AGAIN.
Subject Will Be Taken Up Once
More at the Next Session.
Roosevelt May Be Appealed to by
Both Parties.
WILL TRY IT AGAIN.


Portsmouth, Aug. 1S.-The deadlock
between the Russian and Japanese
plenipotentiaries over article II of the
peace conditions (the limitation of
Russia's naval power) which develop
ed at yesterday afternoons sitting of
the conference, had not been broken.
when the envoys adjourned for lunch
con at 1880 D. m. today. The fore
noon session was entirely given up to
consideration of the article and the of
fetal statement issued after adjourn
ment said the discussion would be re-
sumed this afternoon.
When the peace plenipotentiaries met
today it was practically with the tacit
understanding that at the end of todays
session they would adjourn until Mon
day. The prophets of evil'' as those
who persist in believing that all hope of
a treaty is gone, are called predicted
that today would witness the final rup-
lure, and that at most there would be
only one more meeting, not for a final
effort to reach an accord, but to ex-
change the diplomatic amenities and bid
each other farewell.
This does not represent the situation.
Unless something entirely unforeseen
on either side occurs today, the final
struggle will be postponed until Mon
day to give both sides time to hear the
latest word of their governments.
No matter what the written full
powers" of plenipotentiaries extraordi-
nary may be, these modern days of the
cable and the telegraph which keep en-
Voys in instant communication with
their home governments, has made
more or less of a fiction of the full
powers which in the olden days were
given to ENJOYS charged by their gov
ernmentS with negotiating and settling
now conducted by emperors and govern
ments rather than by emissaries. En-
Voys propose and emperors dispose.
Both sets of plenipotentiaries are in
continuous communication with their
governments. Each days proceedings
are cabled nightly to Toxic and st. Pc
tersburg, and messages are constantly
arriving from both capitals. The cables
Of Japan are longer and more complete
than the Russian.
Nitte Receives a Message.
Just before Mr.. Witte left for the
conference chamber this morning he
received long cipher cable. 1t was
too late to decipher it at the hotel and
Mr.. Witte thrust it into his pocket
folio and took it with him to the navy
yard. where his secretaries could trans
late it. Article IL (the limitation upon
Russia's naval power) was pending
when the ENJOYS reaSSembled. The in
dicationS were that it also would go
over without final action. The last
article, number IL, relating to fishing
rights, may be yielded by the Rus
slams, but neither 10 (the interned
WarShipS) nor II nor 2 presented in
harks back to indemnity and Sakhalin.
There, as from the first, is the crux.
If they can be adjusted the remainder
will be child's play. 1t is difficult to
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stated in these dispatches last night,
there have been vague moves in the
conference chamber, which indicate
that they are willing to consider the
disputed points together zen bloc and
this is the basis of the main hope that
they are ready to compromise.
When these points were thrown out
Mr. Witte did not "tiD his hand He
watched like a hawk but he wanted
his adversary across the table to COM
NIT himself. The Japanese did not do
SO. Nevertheless Mr.. Sato reiterated
to the correspondent this morning be-
that the disputed articles would be re-
verted to later which means Mon
day.
May Appeal to Roosevelt.
The Russians in the final test may
yield one of the two points. They will
not do more if they will do SO much.
If the Japanese therefore do not yield
at least one the conference is wrecked.
That can be regarded as certain. If
the conference threatens at the last
moment to go to pieces, the japanese
hint vaguely at an attempt at rescue
by President Roosevelt. They offer
no explanation, they furnish no speci-
fications. Where, how, in what way
they do not say. Perhaps tomorrow
or Sunday an emissary might be sent
to Oyster Bay to sound the president
Perhaps if they personally believe in
yielding one of the main points and
their government is still obdurate, they
will ask President Roosevelt to inter-
cede to bring pressure to bear at
Toxic. The president might be asked
simultaneously to urge both the Rus
sian and japanese emDerors in the
name of humanity to make mutual
concessions. But old hands at diplo-
macy sav the situation created would
sibility of President Roosevelt stepping
into the breach.
The Russians had the start of the
Japanese for the navy yard today
They left the hotel about 9:10 a. m.
Mr. Witte and Baron Rosen appeared
on the veranda, accom- panied by sew
eraI members of their missions. in
Guiding General Yermaloff and Mr..
| Berg.
Baron Komura and Mr.. Takahira on
| their way from the elevator to their
automobile passed down an aisle of
people whose greeting was acknowl-
edged by both plenipotentiaries
What the Wireless Tells.
Honolulu, Aug. 1S.-A dispatch by
wireless telegraph from Hito says that
Hama. the Hawaiian wife of Kallua. a
Chinese. gave birth to one child on last