The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-05-10

Inc WOfIQ from TOXIC, JdpaI1I say
Japan must give her final answer to
Russia by May 9TH. The suspense
and anxiety are terrible. Nothing ID
known; everything Is dreaded. Whom
mediation by the United States was
being discussed last November by the
authorities at Washington and Toxic,
President Cleveland prophesisd q
league OF the European powers to de-
prive Japan OF the fruits of vic
tory.
Thereafter the powers were care
fully notified of the Japanese intsn-
tions. No opposition to them was
ever manifested. The blow was re-
served until the treaty of peace bad
been signed.
Viscount Matsu, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Premier Ito's col
league in the peace conference, is des-
perately i'll.
LONDON, Eng, May IA dispatch
from Picking says: No decision has
yet been reached in regard to the rati-
fication of the treaty of peace. Lii
Hung Chang, the senior Chinese
peace envoy, has arrived in Picking
and has been given an audience by
the Emperor, but what action was
agreed upon, if any, is court secret.
No edict has yet been published con-
corning the result of the delibera-
tiOns.
PARIS, France, May 1.-Gaulois to-
day announces that Russia has in
vited France and Germany to sign a
So, ofok hot oh -
the treaty of peace arranged at Shi-
mOnoseki between the represe natives
of China and Japan, and that the lat
ter country be notified that the fact of
her ignoring this note will warrant
armed interference on the part of the
three powers which sign it.
ST. PETERSBURG, May LIN con-
sequence of the attitude of England
in Asia, the government has decided,
by the Cars command, to extend
the Trancaspian railway from Samar-
cand to Marghilan, in Asiatic Russia.
Marghilan is about 275 miles little
north of east of Samarcand. 1t is in
the province of Fergana, one of the
most fertile parts of Russian Central
Asia. When this extension of the
railroad is completed Russia will be
able to send troops from Europe by
steam transport alton almost to the
northern border of the Pamirs, and
within a comparatively short dis
tance of the mountain passes leading
into Afghanistan and India. The
carrying out of this work could hard
Iy fail to excite fresh anxiety in Eng
land over the Asian question.
The Central News correspondent in
Toxic says:
While the Japanese Government |
has no reason to doubt that Lii Hung
Changes arrival in Cheefoo on May !
Sth will be followed by the ratifica- |
tion of the treaty, it does not relax its
preparations to carry on the war;:
Arsenals and dockyards are buster |
than ever before, working to their full |
capacity day and night.
Special efforts are being made to |
equip the warships taken from the |
Chinese. Crews have been allotted to
these vessels and are drilled inces-
sanity.
The Morning Post has this dispatch |
from Shanghai: The Chinese of For
mosa recently sent a delegation to the |
British officials to request Great |
Britain to prevent the Japanese from |
annexing the island. The delegates |
offered in return for Great Britain's |
interference a large share of the pro- |
fits from the FormOsa mines. 1t is I'M
derstood that the offer was referred to
Great Britain, who replied that she |
was unable to interfere.
YOKOHAMA, May l. Count Ito,
President of the Japanese Council of
Ministers, and Count MyOji, the Jap
anese Envoy, have started for Chez
foo, to be ready to ratify the treaty of
peace on May Sth, the day fixed by |
the peace ENJOYS for ratification.
WILL VISIT PEsCADoR ISLANDS.
LONDON, April 29.-The Times will
tomorrow print the following dispatch
from its correspondent in Hongkong: |
A British warship will visit the Pes
cador Islands, which are at present in
the hands of the japanese. It is sup
posed the Japanese wish to hide the
massacre of the Chinese garrison
there, because they have shown anx-
iety to prevent foreign warships from
landing since the capture of the ISL
ands.
PRESENT OF SILKS.
VICTORIA, (B. CO., May 1.-Advices
brought by the Empress of China
state that the Emperor of China has
sent over 200 bolts of most valuable
silk stuffs to the Emperor of Japan as
token of the Chinese Emperor's de-
sire for the restoration of peace. Over
200 kilograms congratulating the jap
anese on the armistice had been re-
ceiVed from the naval and military
officers of various foreign powers up to
the Sd ult.
FOSTERS BIG FEE.
TOXIC, May John w. Foster
sailed with Ii Hung Chang and his
retinue back to China, after the peace
negotiations were concluded. They
went to Tientsin and from there to
Picking. Mr. Foster goes back to re-
ceive his salary, and then he Will
come here before returning to the |
United States.
Though Mr.. Foster has had very
little to do with the negotiations and