The herald., 1895-04-18
now GIN CHM RAISE II?
Tie Money Indemnity Will Be
a Bad Hitch
CLAUSES IN TIE TREATY
Less in thu Tax Will be Severely Felt
id China
Full Tcr;rs Of the reacc Consti.ution Have
Not Been Received at the repart-
m:nt in Washington

States Minister Dun at Tok 10 has been
heard from in an announcement of the
treaty of pecco between China and Japan.
but he apparently does not know upon
what terms the treaty has bean signed.
The Chinese legation and the japanese
legation here are also in ignorance as to
the exact conditions.
1t is believed here the japanese have
secured the abolition of the Liken tax by
which is meant the tax imposed on goods
transported from one point III China to
another. This has been the object of ell
occidental diplomats accredited to China
for months, and the officials OF the state
department feel all civilized nations will
owe debt of gratitude to Japan for thus
removing the burden on their commerce
with China for it is not believed this
concession would have been made in the
interest of Japan.
Should Japan, however, be the only
beneficiary as regards this tax, it is fully
expected that strong protest will be
made by the powers which would be
greatly handicapped in the competition
with Japan for the Chinese trade unless
they could claim the same privileges of
exemption under the favored nation
clauses of their treaties.
L HC lVoS Vi tllt iJlhcll bdk Will Oc very
severely felt by China. 1t averages about
$1,000, 900 taels per annum and China
will supply the deficit in revenue with
great difficulty. The revenues of the
country were estimated by competent
British consular officer in 1888 as 65, 000,
900 taos per annum, and as the custom
taxes are limited by treaty to per cent,
it is matter of much speculation as to
how the country will raise the large in
demnity demanded by Japan.
Commander Myaoka. an attache of
the Japanese legation, referring to the
military operations of the Japan-China
war Just closed, said:
ut has afforded a wide field of obserya-
ton on modern methods of warfare as it
has been the first great conflict since the
Franco-German war, when the imple
ments of war were far less advanced than
they are now. At the outset the Japanese
soldiers were armed with an old style
rife and the battle of Ping Yang was
fought with single hre guns. Among
the guns captured from the Chinese, It
was found that they had very few SUI
perior repeating rifles, although the bulk
OF their arms were found primitive and
useless. Japan has since undertaken to
rearm all soldiers with repeating rifles
of the latest type. Already one-third of
government arsenals are hard at work
turning out the guns for complete equip
ment.
THE war footing of the japanese army
is now up to $4,000 men, their peace
footing was 10000, distributed in six gar
risons. l
Now that the war is over it is not
likely that an immediate reduction will
be made back to the. peace basis, for ii
the final terms OF peace include cessions
of territory, permanent or Temporary,
there will have to be forces for these
localities besides equipping the six home
garrisons.' =
LONDON, April 17.-An official dis
patch has been received at the foreign
office here announcing the conclusion of
peace between China and Japan.
The secretary of state for foreign affairs,
Earl Kimberly, returned to town unex-
pectedly today and informed reporter
cluded matters relating to commercial
concessions. The exact nature of the
latter was not known to him, but geneI-
ally speaking the terms were correctly
stated in the dispatches to the Associated
Press from Tien Tsin last night.
The dispatch referrC d to by the earl was
The dispatch sent out exclusively by the
Associated Press last night announcing
that an imperial edict had been issued au
thorzing Ii Hung Chang to sign the
terms of peace i'll accordance with the
japanese utimatum. Accordingly the
indemnity TO be paid by China is 200,
900, 900 taels, the japanese to have the
Lao Tung peninsula to the fourth degree
of latitude, and are also to possess the isl
and of Formosa. In addition, Pekin and
four new ports of China are to be opened
to commerce and the Japanese are to have
the power to open cotton factories and
o her industries in China. The decree
also provided that the import duties at
the open ports are not to exceed per
cent.
LONDON. April IA dispatch to the
Daily News from Berlin says the National
Zeitung declares all nations interested in
commerce in China must lose no time in
protecting their interests against treaty
which will completely paralyze European
competition against Japar All the papers
agree that in regard to the territorial
LONDON, April 1.-THE Daily News in
japanese treaty, says: Nothing but our
follies or mistakes can deprive us of the
lead we hold through the east. The new
treaty only improves, our opportunities.
In it's political issues it may be safely
left to take care of ITSELF,
LONDON, April Edtorially the
Times says it presumes the independence
of Corea means a more less thorough Jap
anese protectoate. 1t adds that when
the terms of the treaty are known Euro
pean diplomacy will probably make a
show of considering them, but If the Jap
anese refuse, as they presumably will, to
listen to diplomatic eXhortations, it is
difficult to conceive at any more
effective interference with their plans
need be seriously apbrehended,