Echoes Of Japan-china War

Shanghai: lt is announeed at Pekín that the Japanese renounced their claim to the Liao Tung península without demanding the payment of an increased amount of indemnity for so doing; it is added the conduct of Japan in this matter is warmly praised. It is feared that the disbanding of the Chinese troops wil] cause disturtances. Berlín: A dispatoh froin St. I'etersburg says that despite the pressure exerted by the powers Japan persists in declining to fix the date for the evaeuation of the Lioa ïung peninsula and Corea. Kobe: The report that Japan avoided Russia's threatened ultimatum by abandoning the Liao Tung peninsula has greatly exeited and disappointed the nation. The suspension of nevvspapers hostile to the government's action continúes. The Jfepancse minister and the members of the foreign legations are strictly guarded to prevent their being attacked by fanatical mitives. A dispateh from Madrid says it is nnderstood Spain has sent a note to Kussia. 1' ranee and Gerraany contending that, as the Japanese did not hold Formosa when her treaty of peaee was signed, their rightto occupy the island in face of the opposition of its inhabitants is disputative and is a pretext for ! further intervention.