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Show TOO EARLY FOR PEACE NEW YORK. Aug. 1. Nsaujlro Ishl-kaw, Ishl-kaw, editor of the Hachl 8hlmbun of To- j kior one of the men officially accompany- ing Komura, the .Japanese peace envoy, gave out an interview here in which be outlined what he declared to be the popular pop-ular feeling In Japan regarding peace terms. . , - "My people feel that this is no time for peace; tha It is too early," he said. ''First, we must get Harbin and Vladivostok, Vladi-vostok, for unless we get them we fear that by and by we shall have to light again. We must stop Russian ambition now. once for alL we dojnot wish to fight the Russians again, once peace has bren concluded." On the question of indemnity, Mr. Ishi-kaw Ishi-kaw said that the very smallest sum his people would be willing to consider was 1750,000,000, the actual cost of the war so far, but that some demanded as high as 12.600.000,000. He himself thought the people peo-ple would be satisfied with $1,000,000,000. "Then Sakhalin must be ceded for two reasons, ha continued. "In the first place, it was 'exchanged' by Russia thirty thir-ty years ago for the Cblshlma archipelago, archipel-ago, but these other Islands really belonged be-longed all the time to' Japan, and it was only because Japan ,waa at that time afraid of Russia that the deal was assented as-sented to." |