The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-31
JAPAN WILL RECEIVE
 SOME REIMBURSEMENT
HER PART OF THE CHINESE EASTERN RAILROAD WORTH
 S75, ,OOO, 900.

Russia Must Pay This Sum to China and
 China to Japan if She Wishes the
 Road-AmOunt May be Even Greater
 as Japan Will Probably Ask Reim- bursement for Restoring the Road
 Which Was Destroyed by the Rus-
 sians as They Retreated.
 Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 8O.-The As sociated Press is able to give one addi- tional and interesting as we'll as impor- tant detail in regard to the conditions of peace. Most important of all is the fact that the formal recognition of Ja- pans possession of the Chinese-Eastern railroad below Kuenchengtse, the juno tion Of the branch to Kirin, involves payment by Russia to China of a sum estimated at $75,0OO.OOO. This is the Chinese interest in the road, and for it China must be remunerated.
 The question of the ultimate possess sion of the road is a matter to be set tied between Japan and China. Japan can keep the road or surrender it to China, demanding in return the money paid by Russia to China, If she elects the latter course Japan will, therefore, obtain as an indirect spoil of war from Russia the above mentioned sum in ad- dition to reimbursement for the cost of maintaining the Russian prisoners of war, for which Japan will present an itemized bill. Japan is known to have given her word to China not to retain the railroad which was really built for strategic purchases.
 But If China prefers the money to the railroad Japan could not be accus- ed of bad faith, Inasmuch as Japan was deslrous even before the war of extending the then projected Korean railroad, (which is already in operation) So as to eventually connect with the Eastern Chinese and Shan-Kai- -Kwang roads and in the negotiations which proceeded hostillties asked Russia to bind herself not to impede this aim it is considered likely that she would her self prefer the railroad to the money. In addition to turning over the sum ob- tained from Russia, China, if she took the railroad, would therefore have to reimburse Japan for the expense incur red by her in restoring the road, re- ,, building the bridges and changing the guage. Whether it remains in the hands of Japan or ultimately becomes a part of the system of Chinese imperial railroads a traffic arrangement must be made with the part still in the pos session of the old Chinese Eastern company, the stock of which is held by the Russo Chinese bank. This adjoust- ment will be arranged later.
 Both Russia and Japan, if the latter retains the road, are to be allowed to have railroad guards for the protec- tion of the railroad property, and in case of disorder calculated to threaten their interest. are mutually to be per- 4nitted to send troops, but the number is in no case to exceed those required, and they are to be forthwith recalled as soon as their mission is accomplish ed. This, likewise, is a very important provision, and with the east and west Chinese Eastern line and the southern line as far as Kuenchengtse still in Russia's possession, would, in case of a future issue, give her control of the largest part of Manchuria--the whole vast territory from the fertile valley of the sungari, called the ''granary'' of the province, northward.
 Another important provision is that : Japan's succession to the Port Arthur and Liaotung leases, which Russia sur renders, is contingent upon China's as- sent
 The armistice was not arranged to- day. The war departments, both at St. Petersburg and Tokio, are consulting j Linevitch and Oyama respectively, and 1t is not improbable that the armistice will be concluded directly by the gen. erals on the field of battle,
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