THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7913, 31 August 1905, Page 3

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

. DUfIK Um 10 U IGREEMEIiT OYEECOVIIG THE UDEiUiTI QUESTIOIWASHINGTON, Aug. 29. M. Sato, a member of Baron Komura's suite has announced that Japan will make fresh concessions. It is understood that the concessions f refer to tbe indemnity. An adjournment is expected for their consideration. St. PETERSBURG, Aui;. 2.1. Russian newspapers attack Mr RooccTelt on t-he ground of partiality. Tbe Svet says the conditions would be only acceptable if a fleet were threatening St. Petersburg and an army occupying Moscow. Russia will not bow to the yoke and fulfil Mr Roosevelt's desire to guarantee Japan's American creditors and cover tomseli with glory as a peacemaker. iPERTDQBT 11Q0IRI. LONDON, Aug. 23. The Times asks why tbe Russian plenipotentiary makes such disclosures. M. de Witte's attitude suggest* that de Witte never intended or desired a conference which would lead to a settlement. The Paris correspondent of the Tines declares that last spring a first-rate authority on Russian attain expressed to bim the opinion that Russia would never consent to an indemnity, because once it was paid she could never recover hj, whereas other concessions might be evaded. The Times' New York informant • ( added that be has heard unofficially that tbe Anglo-Japanese alliance has not yet been signed after all.

PUCE AT LUST! OBebllj Ameuced, LONDON, Aug. ». Several telegrams from Portsmouth state that Russia and Japan have -•greed on peace, LATER. Peace is officially announced. | COMPLETE AGREEHIT AHHITED AT. 61EIT REJOICUGS. L ARMISTICEIECOHHDED. iMWTtIt Tkub tbe Plenipotentiiiles. TSB HUUDd SATES THE SITUATIOX. 4 sssiu ti iNseielt(Received Aug. 30, 11.17 p.m.) - WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. % It is officially announced at Portsmouth that the Conference arrived at • complete Agreement on all questions and that it has been decided to prepare a treaty. There was great jubilation in al> directions, peals being rung on the church bells. M, de Witte and Baron Komura telegraphed to their respective Governments, recommending an armistice, Baron Komura notified President Roosevelt, who telegraphed his thanks and congratulations to tbe plenipotentiaries of both nations. Baron Sato Issued the following notification: "The Sagbalien and reimbursement issues from the outset showed an absolute divergence of views which {recently threatened the Conference, but the Mikado, responding to tbe dictates of humanity and civilisation, and in the interests of peace, authorised the waiving of the re-imbursement of tbe war expenses, and consented to a division of - -Saghalfcn, which are mutually acceptable terms," Reuter's Agency reports that Japan withdrew! her demands (or the warships and the limitation of Russian naval power in the Far Cast, M* de Witte stated that the Japanese obtain only tuat portion of the Chinese Eastern railways south of Qiautoßi M. de Witte telegraphed to President Roosevelt that history will ascribe to bim the glory of the peace secured at the Conference, and assuring liim of Russia's . appreciation of his initiative. ' M. DE WITTE AMAZED.

CoapieU TicUrj for Stssia. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. M. dc Witte, on bis being inter* r view* l - declared : "We do not pay a I kopeck of indemnity. We get half That is the agreement in Km nutshell. It seems incredible. 1 do |. lot believe any other person in my \ pace would have dared to hope that p jeace was possible in the circumstanP* <es. From all sides, from President • * Roosevelt down to my friends in Rus- - lia, I received, up to this morning, «rgent representations that an indemnity should be paid to Japan. ■ At to-day's meeting I presented a l written proposal, which was in the gature of an ultimatum, and to my (jaaxement the Japanese accepted it. J had resolved not to omit a word. It.was the end as far as I was concerned, but I could not foretell how it would work in the Japanese mind. Tbe result proved, however, a com- ■ plete victory for us—half Saghahcn,i the payment of redemption T&owJ,"-