Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-06
JAPAN AND
THE CHINESE
Former Will Ask For 4 Slice
OF Territory.
SOME O WANTED
Many Pearl Fishers Drowned Off the
Coast of Qusenslanl--The In
flusnca OF Ii Hung Chang
SOME O WANTED

Vancouver. +. c.. April 5-O-ien.at al
wees brought by the steamer Empress Of
Japan indicate that Japan has watched
WITH Jealous eye Italy's recent attempt
70 set possession OF San Nun. Marquis
Ito has been III direct communication
with Ii Hung Chang and has advised
various reforms. He says tie partition
OF China viii he inevitable should hin
perSiS, in her DreSen, course o. action,
In View q the San Mum affair sne Iapa-
nese are saying their must
abandon the hold-aloot policy hitherto
adopted and demand some substantial
grant OF land from China, probably a port
in Fok.en.
Il Okun2. ex-premier. advises the
government 10 50 conduct itself as Il in
ouce CHINA 10 rely solely upon the sal
Ian assistance Of Japan for the MAIN
tenance Of Independence. The first meas
ure TO be adopted for that is to
drill several hundred Chinese soldiers by
japanese officers; secondly, to encourage
toa dispatch of Chinese students to Japan
for study. If the situation should COM
pei Japan to take a final step. il will be
absolutely necessary for her 10 hold
Annoy the railway between that place
and Hankow. This phase can only enter
into Japan's calculations when the main
tenance OF China's integrity is entirely
despaired Of and there is no hope Of pre-
venting a partition. In the meantime.
Mr.. lano, the Japanese minister at
Picking. has applied 10 the Chinese gov
for five new settlements for
Japan's exclusive use TO be opened at
Foo Chow. Annoy. KAY New Chwangl
Shanghai n Chung King III addition to
what thew already ppSSpSS
1t is stated that the Chinese govern
ment has decided to entertain the de-
mandS With the exception OF Shanghai
and Chung King.
There appears to have been no truth in
the report that the dowager empress had
recalled Ii Hung Chang to Picking. The
latter has finished the labor Of examining
the yellow river. but his rivals in the
Sung Ii tsung Ii amer arc trying TO
keep him out Of the capital. They fear
his influence.
The Japanese government is Dispatch
ing several Judges and public procurators
abroad to study foreign systems. They
will visit America and England. Bang
kok ISiam) reports say that a murdcrous
secret society is again at work. those
who do not obey the laws of its leaders
are arrested. punished by mutilatinn and
loss of member and even assassinated
The authorities are powerless in the face
Of his formidable confederation which
purSlleS the even tenor of its way as II II
were the only government in Siam. The
agreement by which Japan joins the in
ternational copyright union Will shortly
be promulgated.
During the recent terrific whirlWind on
the coast Of north Queensland, about LOO
Japanese engaged in the pearl fishery
were drowned. About 200 Japanese prlS-
oners in Nigata prison hay been simulta-
neously taken i'll. They are supposed to
have been poisoned. \. report has reach
ed the Japanese government that Canada
intended to impose a duty OF l. cents a
pound on Japanese tea. Tea dealers take
the report very seriously and they are
asking that negotiations be entered with
the Canadian government against an I'M
position OF the tax.