The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-07

The Cession I'm the Nature of a Lease for
an IDd.finire Period - Several Square
Miles Of Territory Included, Over W hich
Germany Is Given Sovereign ControI-Ger
many to select Other Location IL Desir
CorsNHgnts of the London Press on the
Sztion
Pekin, January 5.-Tne Kiao Chou
difficulty was settled yesterday at a
conference of the Hsung- g-Li-Yanmen
(Chinese foreign office) which made the
necessary concessions. Details are ex-
pected.
Berlin, January 5.-The Rechsanzeig-
er this evening announces that accord
ing to a telegram from Pekin, an under
standing has been reached between
Germany and China regarding the ces-
sion of Kiao Chou bay to the former.
The arrangement it is added, is sub
stantially as follows:
The cession takes the form of lease
for an indefinite time. Germany is at
liberty to erect on the ceded territory
all the necessary buildings and estab-
lishments and to take the measures re-
quired for their protection. The ceded
territory comprises the whole of the
inner basin Of Kiao Chou bay, so far as
the high water line, the larger head
lands situated south and north Of the
entrance of the bay, to the point where
they are naturally bounded by noun
tain ranges, and also the islands sit
uated within and in front of the bay
The ceded territory comprises an
area of several square miles, bounded
by a large zone around the bay, with
i'm which no measures or arrangements
may be made without the consent Of
Germany. In particular 40 obstacles
are to be raised by China to any meas
ures Germany deems necessary for the
regulation of the water courses.
Finally, In order to avoid conflicts
(which might disturb the good under
standing between the two powers,
China has transferred to Germany, for
a period, a lease of all sovereign rights
over the ceded territory.
The telegram which is brief, does not
state duration of the lease nor the
amount payable by Germany.
If for any cause Kiao Chou bay
should prove unsuitable for the objects
Germany has in view, China, after ar
irving at an understanding with Ger
many, will cede the latter, at another
point of the coast, a piece of territory
which Germany may regard as more
suitable for the purpose. In that case
China will take over the buildings and
eSta blishment constructed by Germany
at Kiao Chou bay and refund their
cost.
London, January 6.-The Times says
editorially this morning: ut would be
simple to assume that the Reichsanzei-
gers dispatch tells the whole story
for it quite omits to say what China
gets in return. To the world at large,
,i,a1 not i- ns,tT
Germany, by physical force, has OBJ
Hained a naval station. This is the fact
that must guide other powers in de-
termining their own policy. The talk
. of a lease is a mere saving of appear
ances. There is no doubt that both
Germany and China are aware that 1t
is a practical cession in. full sovereign
ty. 1t provides a further argument in
favor of an English guaranteed Chinese
loan.
London, january 5.-There is a gen.
eral feeling i'm England, and it is re-
ffected ON the stock exchanges, that
THE situation in the far east is inn
proving Tt lis believed the proposed
1oan of e16,oOO,OOO WIFI be guaranteed
by tThe British government ah%Rgh
the final decision is NOT likely sbe
Reached until the meeting OF the cz-D-
. dnet on Monday next.
THE Pail Mall Gazette this after
MOON referre+lo the "Ascendency of
Money c. the Mailed Fist" ETC., and
: sayswsk SGreat tBritain's vessels are
am Ted off Chemullpo and at Port
!, Artfar. This is quietly Implying that
Great Britain win have a voice in flu
-ture arrangements. FNurther, the la
test telegranns clearly indicate that
she HAS plenty of friends. Aside from
iflhe Japanese, nations like the United
81 States, whose interests are purely
are we'll disposed toward
sOur government and are opposed to
Hrade exclusiveness." ,-.. .......
ID. london, january 6.-The Daily. Mail,
commentinlg upon the fact that the
United States and Japan are openly ON
our side in the Chinese affair says:
<tFor once we are getting some recog-
nitfon for our generous commercial
po1icy.''
Despatch to The Times from Pekin,
dated yesterday wednesday,, says
that Germany has taken a lease of
Kiao- Chou for fifty years. 1t says
also reports are current there that a
French occupation of Hai-Nan island
fs Imminent.