THE WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1532, 14 August 1905, Page 2

THE WAR.

THE PEACE TERMS,

OFFICIAL BEPOBT OF FIGHTING

ON SAGHALIEN.

By; telegraph, Press Ass’n, Couyrigh

Bocoived 4.5 p.m., Aug. 13. London, August 12. Boutor’s Agency at Portsmouth has ascertained that M. de Witte is returning ss non posßumus tho demands for an indemnity and cession of Saghalien, but acoepts as a basis of disoussion tho other points in the Japanese proposals. These inoluded :—• The cession of Bussian loases in the

Liaotung Peninsula Evacuation of Manchuria Botrooession to China of any Bussian privileges in Manchuria, and recognition of the open-door poiioy. Cession to Japan of the Chinese Eastern Bailway below Harbin, the main line through northern Manchuria to Vladivostok remaining Bussian.

Booognition of a Japanese protectorate over Corea. Grant fishing rights to Japan in Raters of tho Siberian littoral northwarc'B from Vladivostok to Behring Sea. Belinquish to Japan the interned warships. Limitation of Eussia’s naval strength in the Far East.

The Times’ Bt. Petersburg correspondent | says the general impression is that such j an agreement is impossible. Other advices stats that the Bussiana aooept with quiet resignation the prospeot of a prolonged war. Many are convinoed that the disclosure of Japan’s terms is bound ,to make the war more palatable to the country. An official report from Tokio state that 118 Bussian officers and men at Naioro. Saghalien, surrendered on the Bth. The combined naval and military force started on the 7th to expel the Russians from Yunaioha, 20 miles east of Korsakovsb. Pinnaces carrying .guns entering the inlet on the 10th, troops worked round the eastern shore. After two hours’ cannonading 123 Bussians surrendered.