Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — WAR CENTER NOW IS IN SAKHALIN [ARTICLE]

WAR CENTER NOW IS IN SAKHALIN

Japs Ar« Rapidly Occupying the Island, Russ Being Defeated in Every Fight. SMALL FORCE IS ANNIHILATED Only 200 of 800 Russiam Getting Away in Retreat Street Fighting Is Lively at One Point —Czar or Russia Says the People Can Rely Upon Him.

New fork, Aug. B.—M. de Witte, the Russian peace plenipotentiary, on his arrival here emphatically denied having said that Japan’s peace terms were intolerable. He also denied positively that he had predicted that the conference would break up in a week. The statement denied was sent by a New York Herald correspondent by wireless telegraph from the Kaiser wiiheim der Grosse en route to this port.

Tokio.Jnly 30.—The following report has been received from the headquarters' of the imperial army: “Our force on the island of Sakhalin advanced on the twenty-seventh and hotly chased the enemy from early in the morning. Our vanguard occupied Deibenskoe the same afternoon. While our cavalry entered Rykoff another detachment was sent against the enemy at Nomiha and Ivovskoe, dislodged the enemy’s force holding Vydernicovsky and vicinity, and immediately commenced pursuit. The enemy bolding the latter place consisted of infantry with several guns. The temperature is 93 degrees Fahrenheit.” Hot Fightlas at KykniT. The following is another dispatch received from the Japanese army headquarters: “Our independent cavalry which entered Rykoff (on Sakhalin island, fertjMthree miles northeast of Port Due) July 27 withdrew on findinfi conditions in the city unfavorable to its occupation. Our army, intending to crush the enemy’s forces before they retreated from the eminences west of Rykoff, commenced to advance at 3 a. m. of July 28. The van, together with an independent body of cavalry, advanced by forced marches, dislodging the enemy holding the northern extremity of Rykoff and rushed into the town. Confused street fighting ensued, but the town was completely taken at 8:30 o'clock in the morning. Nearly Annihilated Th Im Force. “The enemy's main strength, which opposed * our right column, fled in disorder southward, taking the short npute leading to Paredono. Un July 28 a detachment which was sent south in pursuit of the enemy met the enemy's infantry, some 8(0 strong, at a l>oint six miles south of Rykoff, and killed over 200 and captured 500. The enemy’s strength opposed to our right column was of some 3,000 Infantry and four guns and four machine guns and that opposed to our left column some 2,000 infantry and four guns.”

‘•NO SHAMEFUL PEACE**—THE CZAR Moya the Pupla Cu Rely oaHlm—De Witte Alee Talk*. St. Petersburg, July 3'l. The emperor has issued the following note In reply to an appeal from the clergy of Orenburg not to conclude a shameful peace: “The Russian ;>eople can rely on me. Never will I conclude a shameful iteace or one unworthy of great Russia.” London, July 31.—The Daily Telegraph's correspondent on board the Kaiser Wilhelm der Gjosse, on which M. de Witte, the Russian peace plenipotentiary, is a passenger, sends an interview which he has had with De Witte in which the latter said that if Russia and Japan had agreed upon a common basis before appointing peace plenipotentiaries it would have been much better. As It was De Witte said he regarded himself rather as an imperia) courier sent to ascertain the terms of Japan. He was prepared to make peace, nevertheless, he added, as his powers were .very complete, and he would discuss the demands based on Japan’s actual military and naval successes in a business-like spirit of give and take. “But- I cannot and will not,” continued De Witte, “entertain demands based upon exjiected military successes in the future. I am conversant with the humane intentions of my imperial master, and I will do anything compatible with Russia's honor and dignity to establish that work of which I have been an unswerving advocate. My first task, however, in the New World will be to search for a basis for fruitful discussion."