JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 132, 27 July 1911, Page 8

JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

AFTERMATH OF THE WAR. Count Witte is publishing a pamphlet giving his pf tne Portsmouth treaty which terminated the war between Japan and Russia. The author says that he was in power in Russia at the time, and lie baulked at the demand that the southern part of Saghalicn should be ceded, and that the northern portion of the island should be jointly controlled by Japan and Russia on the payment by the latter of 1,2(10,000,000 yen, as ho regarded this condition as a veiled insistence on an indemnity. Count Witte adds that Mr. Roosevelt, then President of tlic United States, cabled to the Czar declaring that Japan’s demand was justifiable, and that Russia’s refusal to comply with it might lead to the loss of her possessions in Eastern Siberia, as •Japan had deposited £50,000,000 in Ain erica n banks, whicih would be available for her to continue the will'. The Czar, says Witte, laconically replied that Russia’s position was 'unchanged, and soon after Japan waived her demand. This incident, the pamphlet continues, accounts for Mr. Roosevelt’s failure lo visit Russia during his recent European tour.