The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-16
PEACE is TO BE PROCLAIMED.
Ii HUNG CHANG's son WIRES THAT
TERMS HAVE BEEN SIGNED.

They Are the independence of KO-
rea; JhpRn's Retention of the Con-
quered Places and the Territory
East of the Lao River; Permanent
CessiOn of FOrmOsa; an Indemnity
of SIOO,OOO,OOO and an Offensive
the Two Countries.
London, April l6.-The Times correspon-
dent in Shanghai says: LII Hung Chang's
son-in-law telegraphs that the treaty of
peace was signed in Shimonoselxi to-day.
April 16, and the terms are: First, the in
dependence OF Korea; second, Japan's re-
tention of the conquered places: third
Japan's retention of territory east of the
Lao river; fourth, permanent cession of
Formosa; fifty, am indemnity of sl00,O00.-
600; sixth, an offensive and defensive al
lance between China and Japan.
London, April IA Central News dis
patch from Toxic says that Prince Ko-
matsu, commander-in-chief of the Jap
anese army and navy with a number of
transports, escorted by three warships
passed ShimonoseSi yesterday on his way
to the scene of war. The japanese min
isters at Shimonoseki signalled their fare
wells and good wishes to the prince as the
vessel passed.
Washington, April 15.-Nedther the Chi
nese nor the japanese legation has re-
celNed from SHIN mOnoseki any confirmation
OF Japan's alleged twenty-fOur hours ul-
tmatum, nor has any further news bear
ing upon the peace negotiations come to
hand. War news received by way Of
Shanghai has proved almost uniformly un-
trustworthy. 1t is not believed uhat a sat
lstactory conclusion will be reached before
the 10th instant, when the armistice eX
pres. CHINA reported delay in agreeing
to the conditions of peace seem the more
ineXplicable in view of the fact that at the
request OF the Chinese envoy the Japa-
nese government materially modified some
OF its propositions. Just what these modi-
hcauons were is still a state secret. That
they, as we'll as the conditions as a whole,
We're satisfactory TO Ii Hung Chang Is not
doubted; while st is equally true from Off
ctal reports that Ii Hung Chang secured
better terms than would have been given
TO MIN but for the assault made by the
assassin Koyama. The best explanation
of the delay is that the Pekin foreign office
Is pOstpOning its approval of the terms Of
peace agreed upon by Ii Hung Chang until
the last moment in the hope that some
thing may occur in the interim to China s
advantage.
No credence is attached to the report
which reaches here from Shanghai by
way of London that the Chinese emperor
has issued a proclamation describing the
empire as finished and asserting his ina
bility to longer govern it.
In well informed circles the report is
ridiculed as being too absurd to dignity
with a denial. 1t is asserted in the first
place that the Chinese emperor could
have no purpose in abdicating, and in the
second place, his mother, the dowager en-
press, would not permit him TO retire
If he desired. The proclamation is be-
leved here to be the work of the secret
societies in the empire. These societies,
1t is said, are hostile to the government,
their aims and purposes being not dts
similar to those of the nihilists in Russia.
If the proclamation be their work, it was
probably written for the purpose of add
ing to the confusion in the empire and to
the embarrassment of the reigning pow
ers. The whole story, however, is re-
garded as another Shanghai fabrication.