The Japan-China Treaty.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 252, 27 April 1895, Page 2

The Japan-China Treaty.

_ o JAPANESE GOVERNMENT REMAINS FIRM. RUSSIA ADHERES TO HER DEMANDS. JAPAN WILLING TO FIGHT RUSSIA. (Per PreS9 Association.) London*. April 25. Russia, suspecting that Great Britain has obtained secret concessions, has forwarded to the Japanese Government a note as to the conditions in the treaty of peace to which she will not give her sanction. The Daily News states that Great Britain shares fche Japanese commercial privileges. Sir S. Grey in reply to a question said England had no engagement with 1 Japan giving her equal rights to trade ■with China, but the Chinese treaties : with England gave ample security on , that head. The Japanese Government has repYieft fcbafc ii is anable to acceAe io ihe demands of the Powers on the ground that to do so would expose the country to the danger of a revolution as the populace is drunk with victory. It would refuse to consent to any abatemont of tbe terms. Russia however, adheres to her de- ' rnands. April 26. The Standard asserts that there is a ) conviction m Berlin that the Japanese prefer to tight Russia rather than renounce the annexation of the defined ' Chinese territory which she captured. " Many German newspapers, it is said, disapprove of supporting Russia in her , opposition to some of the conditions of i peace, [ Several Parisian papers, too, protest : against France being dragged at the heels of Russia. St. Petersburg, April 26. The Novoe Vremya states that the j negotiations between Russia and Japan have taken a favorable turn, and it is expected the matters in dispute will soon be settled. Shanghai, April 26. Pekin is in an excited state, and many high Chinese officials are urging the ; Emperor to refuse to ratify the peace treaty.