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Protest To Japan

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
April
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Berlín, April 25.- A dispatch recelved licre from Tokio says that the envoys of Russia, Germany and France have formally protested to the Japanese minister of foreign affairs to the incorporation in the terms of the treaty of peace between China and Japan of any of the Chinese mainland in the Japanese empire. The terms of the treaty make the indernnity payable in seven years, with interest at 5 per cent, but if the amount (200,000,000 taels) is paid Japan in three years, no interest will be demandcd. Japan gets the right to navlgate the Chung Klang, Soo Chow and Hong Kong rivers, to establish factories and import many classes of gooda and macliinery free of duty. China agrees to throw open to civilization over 100,000,000 square miles of the rlchest territory in the empire, having an estlmated population of 200,000,000. Six closed cities, the largest in the empire, are also thrown open, and the TangTse-Kiang, Cantón and Shanghai rivera are opened to commerce. Many miles Of the rivers are to be dredged so that ibips of the deepest draught can reach inland cities and markets. Japan wül continue the occupation of Wel-HalWei as a guaranty of the payment of he indemnity.

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