Show HOW SLAVS AND JAPANESE WILL MEET EACH OTHER official program for their formal presentation to president roosevelt and to each other new york august 3 acting for the president third assistant secretary ot state pierce communicated to baroa la russian am bassa and mr Takai ini tho japanese minister the osbus taj formal to tho russian sal japanese plenipotentiaries to the washington this pro gramme has for been a subject of much study on the part of the president and mr peirce As the presidents re presenta alve mr peirce hlll accompany baron komura and mr takehira and their suite to the pier of the new york yacht club at east street at 9 sunday morning where the delegation will board the protected cruiser chattanooga commanded by comander alexander A harp and the vessel will immediately start tor oyster bay A halt an hour later mr peirce will perform a similar ceremony tor mr watte and baron rosen the russian plenipotentiaries and their suite who will go aboard the protected cruiser tacoma comander Coma oder R F nicholson commanding mr peirce will board the converted yacht sylph which steaming rapidly ahead will take position at the front of the column arriving at oyster bay about noon the peace squadron will anchor its arrival being loudly hearal ded by the firing of an ambassadorial salute of nineteen guns tho japanese plenipotentiaries will come on board from the tacoma and be presented by assistant secretary peirce halt an hour later the russian envoys will come aboard and ba presented immediately tha president will present the russian and japanese plenipotentiaries to each other A buffet luncheon in the cabin of the mayflower will follow at its con elusion the japanese mission will take leave of the president and board tho dolphin mr peirce will go aboard the cruiser galveston and tho president will then tako leave of the russian mission and go ashore again receiving a salute of twenty one guas under convoy of the cruiser calveston commander cutter commanding with mr peirce aboard the russian on the mayflower and the Ja panesa on the dolphin will eail tor portsmouth the squadron will steam slowly so as not to arrive there be tore 10 monday morning desirous of being strictly neutral in all the arrangements for the presentation it was decided at the outset that the washington government the president recognize no precedent based in chec present war because baron komura waa presented at sagamore almost a eek before mr watte arrived in this country it was decided that for this reason baron komura must take precedence over M watte this however will be recognized only in the halt hours difference in the time of the presentation of the two missions the times tomorrow will syr when the russian and japanese envoys begin their conference at ports mouth next week on a day yet to be fixed the first action of M watt after the preliminaries are over willbe will be to ash for an outline of the japanese terms as a bals of i upon the reply of this request will depend the continuance of the negotiations this Is the explanation of the alpar utterances of the alus sian peace commission since his appeal and if Is also the explanation of his of the way in these utterances have been and attended |