London and Chine Express says nothing the history of Far East diplomacy is ealculated to create more surprise than the disclosure to General Grant by the Guvernments of China and Japan of the grounds of their respective differences on the Loo-chao Question, apparently with a view to a peaceable settlement, to which Grant, thus appealed t tributes some conimonscuse si It is certain that the Chinese letter to the Japanese Cabinet of Ist Nuvember, 187%, in which the action of Japan in erecting the Loochoo Islands into a Province was characterised as an act of tyranny ty the islanders, and which discarded Japanese claims to any species of was rash a cone ory urged, that any will inure solely to the benefit of foreig nations, and it is believed that among which the Japanese Cabinet to discuss, was the surrendering China certain of the islands commanding her ocean outlets, the rest entering into the Japanese political autonomy.
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