Tokio, 31st August.
The chauvinistic journals here are dissatisfied, and regard the agreement as humiliating.
The public generally are surprised that there is to be no indemnity, The "Kokumin," however, says that it is not out of place to express congratulations. Japan is nob possessed by the jingo feeling, and she has attained all the objects whose refusal constituted the casus belli, in addition to the protectorate of Corea, the open door in Manchuria, the lease of the Liaotung Peninsula, the transfer of the Chinese Eastern railway and the richer half of Saghalien, and the Primorsky fishery. She has attained what may be culled an honourable peace.
Regarding the waiving of the indemnity and of the cession of the whole of Saghalien, uncontrollable circumstances rendered insistence on these conditions impossible; but this cannot materially injure the dignity of the victors, inasmuch as Japan lid not fight for money.
There is reason to thank Baron Komura and Mr. Takahira, and it is impossible to describe the gratitude that is due to President Roosevelt.
The foreign residents in Japan wonder at and admire Japan's moderation and fairness—Our own oor-
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