Show PEACE NEWS IS SENT TO LINEVITCH st petersburg sept 3 the emperor on friday last telegraphed tho following to general linevitch the negotiations at portsmouth led on aug 19 to a refusal of the demands of the japanese government regarding the cession of the island 0 sakhalin Sak halin the payment ot a war indemnity the surrender of our ships lying in neutral harbors and the limiting of our forces in the waters of the pacific ocean after further negotiations the japanese aug 19 yielded to all our conditions but asked tor the return of the portion of sakhalin Sak halin occupied by japanese troops which is the part held by japan until 1875 and then ceded by treaty to hussla the army so dear to me withstood the assault of a num erl cally superior enemy in manchuria step by step during nineteen months repulsing his advance under your leadership the army was reorganized and strengthened by the arrival of troops from russia and if Is now greater in numbers and strength than before I 1 and all russia bellevo in tha strength of my glorious army and in its readiness to sacrifice itself for the good of the fatherland but my duty to my conscience and to the peo pie entrusted to me by god commands me abt to again put to the test the valor of russian men so dear to my heart and not to expose them to fresh and endless horrors of war in order to retain half of a remote island which japan ceded to us in 1876 and I 1 have therefore accepted the preliminary peace negotiations the russian troops have repeatedly prayed during this sanguinary conflict valor and self convey this to my dear army may it know that I 1 and rus sia value sacrifices which it haa made in this severe war |