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Show M THE CRUEL WAR , AT LAST ENDED Japanese Waive Indemnity and Divide Sakhalin With the Russian Qovcrmncnt. Cudden Conclusion of Terms Between Warring Nations Comes as Pleasing Pleas-ing Surprise Just When It Looked I s Most Gloomy for an Agree- i ment. Portsmouth, N. H. Tbo long nnd ' Moody war botwocn Jnpan and Russia la ended. Tho terms of poaco wcro agreed upon by M,. Wltto and Haron I Komura at tho session of tho confer- enco Tuesday morning, and Tuesday afternoon preliminary arrangements for an nrmlstlco wcro concluded -and tho actual Svork of framing tho "treaty of Portsmouth" was by mutual agroo-ment agroo-ment turned over to M. Do Martons,-nussla's Martons,-nussla's great International lawyer, and Mr. Donnlson, who for twonty-llvo years has acted as tho legal adviser of tho Japancso foreign odlco. i This happy conclusion of tho con ference, which a week ago would have." L been shipwrecked had It not been for ' tho heroic Intercession of President Itooscvclt, was sudden and dramatic. For tho sako of peace, Japan, with tho magnanimity of a victor, at tho last moment yielded everything still In Issue. Is-sue. " ' Russia refused to budge from tho ultimatum Emperor Nicholas had given giv-en to President Roosovolt through , Embassador Meyor. No Indemnity un- ,. der any gulso, but an agreement to ill- - vldo Sakhalin and rolmburso Japan for tho maintenance of prisoners Avero his last words. Thbyliid been repeatedly reiterated In M. Wltto's -' Instructions, and, In tho form of a' written reply to tho Jnpaneso com-i com-i promise proposal of last week," they wero delivered to Daron Komura. . M. Witto feared a rupture and as ho expressed it afterward, ho was stunned by whnt happened. Haron - . . Komura gavo way on all tho disputed points.. With tho prescience. thumbs enabled tho Japancso to gaugo tho j , mental processes of their adversaries on tho Held of battlo and upon tho i ' sea, thoy had realized In ndvnnco that " pencb could"bVobtalncd"in no other $ way. They had warned their govern- i f ment. - President Ilooseovlt had also, it Is t ' Dcllovcd, advised Japan that It was better to meet tho Hussion position than to tako tho responsibility of continuing tho war for tho purposo of collecting tribute. Tho mikado, at tho ndvlco df tho cabinet nnd oldor statesmen, had sanctioned tho llnal concession. When Haron Komura yielded, tho rest was mcro child's play. , Artlclo 10. nnd 11 (intorncd warships "VundTtho' limitation of Russia's soa power In tho far cast) woro' withdrawn. with-drawn. Japan agreed that only that portion 'of tho Chlneso Eastern rail road south of Chantfu, tho position occupied .by Oynraa, should bo coded to "Japan, Roth sides, onco tho dead-'.lock dead-'.lock Avas broken) wanted 'ir "Just and t lasting" peace, nnd in that "respect It wns decided to ncutrallza Sakhalin, each country binding itself not to fortify for-tify Its half of tho Island, and Japan assuming an obligation hot to fortify ' La'-Perouse. strait, between Sakhalin arid Hokkaido, which would bar Russia's Rus-sia's commercial routd to tho Paclllc. Tho plenipotentiaries wc,nt further. "Thoy decided to add a now clauBo in tho nature of a broad . provision for, mutual t commercial privileges by' i which ''tach coiinfry will socuro for Mho other tho bcnollt of .the -"mast , favored nation" clause and "tho open i door," - Thonow treaty, therefore, will bo a wdnUcrfully friendly document, of a f. chnracter almost to raise tbo suspicion sus-picion that tho two countries havo not negotiated peaco, but havo concluded ,tho basis of a futuro alliance Thoro 'Is, howover, no evldonco, as rumored, that 'any, socr"dt clauses' nro tobo op-v op-v pended to tho present treaty. "Tlcfdro-leavlng thd conference building build-ing fellclfattgns-wcro exchanged with tho p'resldcnt at Oyster Bay. Doth Daron Komura and M Wltto telo-graphed. telo-graphed. Tho Jormor confined himself him-self to apprising Mr. Roosovolt of tho conditions upon which peaori had been concluded. M. W.llto frankly laid his tributo at tho president's feet. In his mossago ho said "History will ascribe to" you tho glory,"and added tho oxprosslon of Russia's" hearty appreciation of tho president's "genoroua Inltlatlvo" Mr. -Roosovolt replied with words of thanks and congratulation. |