Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-10

China Was Willing to Allow America
I to Arrange Peace Terms.
Official Announcement Of Rat
ification Of Treaty.
Niciors Took Care TO Feather Their Nestr
] For Future Possibilities.

WASHINGTON, May 10.-The state dc.
partment has just published an appendix
to the, volume of foreign relations of 1894,
comprising history Of the Chinese.
Japanese war; the correspondence relative
10 the enforcement Of regulations respect.
ing fur seals; affairs at Bluefields and the
Mosquito territory; the old Mora claim;
reciprocity correspondence with Colombia,
Hayti and Venezuela, and correspondence
concerning affairs in Samoa.
With the exception of the first named
AL Of these subjects have been fully
treated In documents supplied to con
gress in answer to resolutions during the
last session. The connection of the United
States with the troubles of China and
Japan first appears in a dispatch dated
June %, 1894, from Mr. Uhl, acting secre-
tary of the state department, to the United
States minister, Mr.. Sill, at Seoul, in
which directions are given to the American
representative to Corea to use every posi-
BILE effort for the preservation Of peaceful
conditions. There follows long state
ment of the action taken by the Corean
government, of the appeals to the United
States for assistance, of the strict policy of
neutrality adopted by the Americans.
The Cleveland administration, however,
tried their customary diplomatic channels
90 rreyent hostilitics, but was not success
fal. China was willing to allow the
United States to decide the grounds upon
which peace should be arranged, but
Japan, triumphant and successful, de-
clined.
An Oficial Dispatch
Recei we'd at the Japanese legation yester
day afternoon from Toxic states that the
notifications of the treaty of peace between
Japan and China were exchanged at Che
Foo on Wednesday. No change was made
in the text of the treaty as originally con-
cluded.
Taking into account, however, the rec
ommendation made by Russia, Germany
and France, the Japanese government has
agreed to renounce the permanent posses
sion of the Liao- Tung peninsula on condi-
ton that the arrangements regarding the
terms and form Of renunciation shall be
reserved for adjustment between itself
and the government Of China.
This latter stipulation is construed to
mean that Japan will not surrender the
peninsula until suitable indemnity shall
have been paid, and that it may be even
agreed between Japan and China that the
possession Of Port Arthur itself will be re-
tanned by the Japanese for term Of years |
extending beyond the date when the in |
demnity has been paid in full, thus assur-
ing to Japan not alone the payment Of the |
indemnity itself, but also sufficient time |
to safeguard herself against anything like |
q war of reprisal.
1t will be remembered that the treaty
of peace itself provides that Wei-Hai-Wei
shall be held until the first 100, ,0OO, 900 of
the indemnity and the next two annual
installments have been paid, SO that with
the added guarantee Of the possession of
Port Arthur, even although temporarily, |
the japanese government would appear to |
have taken every possible precautiOn for |
the future.
The foregoing statement is official, COM |
ing direct from Tokia by cable. The un- |
derstanding Is that it embodics the reply |
which Japan recently gave to Russia and |
the allied powers.