Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-08-05
BRITISH FAVOR JAPS
WHATEVER The PEACE TERMS
JAHNNY BULL WILL APPROVE. q q
British Government Refuses to Render
Assistance to Washington in Its Eff
fort to Obtain an Armistice, Al
though 1t Has Their Full Sympathy
Thinks Terms Will Be Reasonable.

Thinks Terms Will Be Reasonable.
Washington, Aug. Japan comes
to the Washington conference assured
that whatever her peace terms, they
will have the sympathetic approval Of
Great Britain. Several suggestions
from Washington to London that the
cause of peace would be served by
an explanation to Japan from her ally
favoring moderation in her demands
upon Russia have not availed to
change the British government in its
apparently unalterable determination
to stand by Japan, however severe she
makes her conditions of peace.
Nor has the British government
seen it's way clear to render assist
ance to Washington in the efforts
which this government is making to
obtain an armistice. Advices reaching
here show that London is opposed to
an armistice until Japan has been sat
isfed that Russia's plenipotentiaries
are prepared to do more than discuss
means for ending the war; if Russia
is ready to conclude peace and has so
empowered her plenipotentiaries,
Great Britain, it is believed, might IA
vor an armistice, but even in this
event, it is said, she would not be
willing to offer Japan advice on the
subject.
AS understood in Washington, Lord
Lansdowne's position is that, as the
loyal ally Of Japan, Great Britain can
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attitude that would in the remotest de-
gree rebound to the advantage of ia
pans enemy. However much London
may wish peace for humane reasons,
her loyalty to Japan, whose pledged
ally she is prevents her even from in
directly bringing pressure to bear by
> suggestions, advice or otherwise at
Toxic regarding negotiations, the eff
feet of which might serve to moderate
Japan's peace conditions or hasten
truce When Japan asks her ally for
advice, the London government, it is
said, is prepared Immediately to give
it, but this advice will be based on
= Japans interest as a primary consider
: alton.
4 Nor is this attitude on the part OF
: the London government misinterpret-
: ed in Washington as indicating that
it's officials do not share in the wish
of the neutral powers for peace. IL
o has made plain that the activity of the
# president has the full sympathy Of
n the British people, although their first
d thought, it is declared, must be in the
L interest of their ally.
y Terms Not Unreasonable.
!. At the same time the London gov
n eminent, in it's exchanges with the
American embassy in London, has not
70 hesitated to declare it's confidence that
i. Japan's terms Will not be unreason-
Ct able viewed in the light of the re-
&C suits of the war.
n Believing, as official Washington
n does, that Japan will not insist on the
" ulsmantlement of Vladivostok, should
10 Russia fail to agree to it in return fol
ri the neutrallzation of Port Arthur, the
no cession of SakhaI4n, which, it is under
stood, will pc among the essential con
ID ditions, will, the officials here believe
rv prove the most serious obstacle Il
,r peace in the far east. Sakhalin ha(
pd not been captured when the presiden
ad initiated his efforts to bring the bel
vo hgerents together. The fact that up t.
To that time Japan had not taken foo
TO of Russian territory simpliied, in thu
Ike opinion of Washington and Berlin, thu
he problem of bringing about peace ne
gotiations.
he Keen interest is felt here in the ne
Ia gotiations which, it is understood, ar
oh making substantial Roadway between
he Japan and England looking to the re
he newal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance
yn The scope of the alliance, it is known
no will considerably exceed the presen
a convention, though to what exten
nd neither Europe nor Washington ha
20 been able to learn. The announcement
an of the main points of the new allianc
M soon after the conclusion of the Wash
g.. ington conference would not surpris
diplomatic circles here.