The Japan-China Treaty.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 249, 24 April 1895, Page 2

The Japan-China Treaty.

EUROPEAN POWERS PROTEST AGAINST THE TREATY. [PEH PRESS ASSOCIATION' | • Shanghai, April 23. China is raising a loan of twenty-fivo millions for the purpose of paying the idemnity. Tokio, April 21. The Japanese press reports that the terms of peace include the session of the Pescadores, Yinkoid, Haicheng and Kullencheng, and the right to navigate the Yang-tse-kiang to Chengkiang and the Foochoo river. April 23. The Mikado has issued a proclamation stating that though victorious, the road along which civilised Japan must march is long, and much remains to be done. Military defence must be perfected in a spirit of modesty. The Russians have stopped the leave of tho sailors in the fleet at Kobe and Nagasaki, and the ships are ready to sail in twelve hours if required. The Mikado's proclamation states the result of the war forbids the heaping of insults on the Chinese. Paris, April 23. France, Russia, and Germany have addressed protests to Japan against the terms of peace, couched in identical language. Le Lemps asserts the terms are a menace to Europe, and it is the duty of England to act in concert with the Powers. The French press betrays anxiety lest England should hold aloof from the concerted action taken by the other European Powers in regard to the peace treaty. St. Petersburg, April 23. The Novro Vreyma states that iv return for Germany and France supporting the opposition of Russia to the cession of Liao-tong Peninsula and the Japanese preponderance in Corea, Russia has undertaken to support all the commercial demands of Germany in the East, and also to assist any action France may take in Indo- China. London, April 22. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Standard says it is believed that the Czar is demanding a protectorate over Corea, the terms of which are equivalent to an annexation, and that Russia considers her prestige will suffer if she allows Japan to seize the Liao-tong Peninsula.