The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
PEACE NOW IN ORDER.
Needless Precautions Taken
by the Authorities at
Picking.
THEY CAUSE A FATAL FLOOD
Russia Yet Bent on Keeping the
Mikado Out of the Main
land.

LONDON, Eng, May 3.-The Times has
dispatch from Shanghai stating that the
Emperor of China ratified the treaty OF
peace with Japan yesterday and that Ii
Hung Chang will at once proceed to Che
foo to exchange notifications with the
japanese representatives.
Notifications will be exchanged at Che
foo on May g. The Mikado ratified the
treaty on April 90 Prince Kung, the
President of the Chinese Council of Minis
tiers and heading the Foreign Office, absent
on sick leave some time, will now resume
active control of the Government depart
ment under his supervision.
PARIS, FRANCE, May 3.-The Japanese
Minister, in an interview published in
Figaro to-day, is quoted as saying that the
intervention of the other powers i'll the
arrangements for peace arrived at between
China and Japan is only small difficulty.
China, he adds, has every interest in
ratifying the treaty and leaving Japan to
arrange the matters with the European
powers. The Minister also said that the
Japanese most desire the payment of the
indemnity and the commercial concessions
upon the part of China to Japan.
The Journal des Debats learns from an
authentic source that Japan has decided
to abandon her demand for territory in
Lao Tung peninsula, except Port Arthur,
in return for compensation elsewhere.
SHANGHAI, CHINA, May BIN accord
ance with special imperial edict issued to
prevent the possibility of the Japanese en-
tering Picking, the Chinese have cut the
river entertainments near Picking. Miles of
territory have been flooded and 100
Chinese drowned.
The British Minister to China, M. N. R.
O'Connor, has gone to Picking to make an
attempt to recover from the Chinese Gov
eminent the arrears of pay due the foreign
ers serving in the Chinese army before the
outbreak of hostilities. 1t is reported in
Tientsin that a German syndicate which
took the indemnity failed to negotiate the
loan with China, and the Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank is making arrangements
for the loan.
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, May "a
semi-official statement has been issued
here dealing at length with the situation
of affairs in the far East. 1t declares that
the maintenance of the status quo on the
Chinese mainland is a political necessity
Whatever the issue of the present struggle,
a realization of japanese claims would en-
tirely abolish the fictitious independence
of the Koreans and place in Japan's hands
the key to China's capital. Moreover,
Russia and France would be compelled, in
their own interests, to ward off their from
tiers any cause for permanent uneasiness
or serious crisis.
The statement says Germany has her
commerce in those regions too much at
heart to see without misgivings German
commercial houses exposed to continual
disturbance. These three powers which
have communicated their views to Toxic.
and know how to enforce respect for them,
do not intend to deprive Japan of the
fruits of her victory, but her civilizing
progress will sooner or later be menaced
with destruction unless it is based upon
the principles on which rests the concord
of civilized nations.