The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
FIGHTERS REJOICING
 AT END OF THE WAR
OFFICERS AND MEN, GLAD THAT THE STRUGGLE IsOVER, HAP
 PILY CELEBRATING.


 Welcome e- Great Admiration for
 Everything American-COmmandin
 Generals Leaving for HOme-Prepa-
 rations for EvacuatiOn-EnOrmOus
 Extent of the Russian Positions
 Gunshu Pass, Manchuria. Sept. S. Since news was received that the peace negotiations at Portsmouth were ap- preaching a conclusion, the correspond ent of the Associated Press has made a survey of all the Russian positions from Mongolia to headquarters. His object in part was to ascertain the ex- tent to which the efforts making for peace were viewed by the army. The negotiations received no official recog- fui conclusion, the army keeping in a state of preparedness for battle until the receipt by General Linevitch of the telegram from Emperor Nicholas de- claring that the treaty had been sign ed and that his majesty accepted the conditions arrived at This telegram was officially published in the army newspaper on September 6, and the out lines of the peace conditions were print ed in the same newspaper to-day.
 The result, of these notifications, ac- eording to the observations of the cor respondent, was to bring to the officers a heavy sense of military decorum, while the soldiers in many places, with the consent and through the generosity of the officers, engaged in feasting and other forms of celebration. It will be 3 week more before the entire army Is fully informed of the conclusion of peace, but the news was discounted long since by the prevailing conviction that since the appointment of the pleni- potentfaries peace was foregone con- clusion. It may be said that to the great majority of the officers and men so far informed the news that the war Is at end is most welcome.
 Thousands are daily drinking to the health of President Roosevelt. The cor respondent, who Is the only remaining foreign newspaper man with the Rus sian 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 Cossacxs, while their officers gently protested against the seemingly ques- tionable form of their admiration. Ey- anywhere along the railway where newspapers could Eoe 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 Presi- dent Roosevelt.
 With the exception of the loss of 8 captain and two orderlies on the east front within the past two weeks. and of nine men in the center week ago, there have been no casualties. The ces- sation of hostilities was preceded only by unimportant reconnaissances fn- volving small parties of scouts. Care has been taken to prevent further loss of life. Owing to the enormous tract of country east of Hailungcheng and be- tween the Russian lines along the Vlad- ivostok railroad and the Japanese posi- tions in the Changpaishan range, it will require some time to reach all the elements operating in the interests of both armies, and restoring the regions occupied by both Hanks to order. The officers are holding races at. Toershu and at other places
 The Fourth Siberian army corps, which played a conspicuous part throughout the war, was reviewed Sep tember 5 by it's commander, General Zarouoaieff, who has won high fame throughout the army because of his prominence in the battles of Tatchekiao and Liao Yang, in the protection of Mukden, and in the retreat from that place. The general is mentioned as among the first who will return home. The disability of General Zerpitsky has steadily increased and he will be com pelled to return to Europe. This of ficer was noted for his singular brav- cry throughout the war. He was wounded at Mukden, where he lost three-fourths of his Tenth army corps.
 It is reported that General Linevitch will leave soon. The general staff is engaged in plans for changing the com- inanders throughout the army prepara- 2 tory to evacuating. Among the soldiers generally there,.is 8 feeling of appre- hension regarding the internal affairs of Russia, and many of them have ex- pressed a desire to remain in Manchu- ria indefinitely.
 Prince Friedrich Leopold, of Prussia, who has been with the army since the beginning of May has announced his intention of returning to Germany.
 After a prolonged war on an enor- mous scale. and after the great prep arations recently made to continue the struggle, the Russian army in comply ing with the condition of peace sur renders two complete positions with field works of vast extent and even more intricate than those at Liao Yang, besides positions of great strength pro- tecting it's communications; but not withstanding this the correspondent found both among officers and men a prevailing sense of the remarkable fairness of the conditions by which the terrible contest had been brought to a close.
 The advocates of further fighting, however, seemed to be convinced that the flower of the Japanese army had gone, leaving only old reservists and in ferior recruits, while the constant
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