'HE greatest pains ate being taken s1|t0 Keep secret the proceedings of the Chinese and Japanese _plenipotentidness who are discussing the new conditions introduced in Manchuria by the treaty of peace between Russia and Japan. Everybody knows that it is almost impossible to keep secret any The Chinese ¥. M. ©. &. Sports The Caledonian Ball The Lancastrian Dit The Hankow Races negotiations in which Chinese officials 1} are engaged, while the Japanese on the 520|other hand may be trusted not to dis-
3 close anything which they do not wish known until the final agreement has ge The Mrting Orda A Traveller's Grievance been reached. "All the' native: papers, however, and many foreign newspapers in China, give their readers from day to day accounts of the proceedings at the conferences, but the differences in these Bit The Shanghai-Nanking Rai Calendars, Etc., Received American Thanksgivi1 Boyoott Meeting. The Lienchou Massacre.- accounts show that their imagination has been drawn on by the reporters.
Some of the reports and deductions are so virulently anti-Japanese, that it is easy to guess the source of their inspira: tion. We: presume' that the internal 'The Great, Norther 'Telegr condition of their country is occupying the Ruséidn authorities so exclusively ths Rares that they Have not had' leisure to Atkinson and Dallas v, UW. Holliday, and R. Grundy, Attorney for A. instruct their representatives in the Far 'Wise 4 yg East that, now.; that peace "has been George Thomas Edking, and others made and ratified.between'-the' two Patrick Doflin 497 powers, it is time that the anti-Japanese.
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Czar haspubliely expressed his convic ition that Japan and Russia are now friends once more, and it should be the duty of his agents to refrain from 04 imperilling that friendship again by inspired writings in a section of the Press in the Far East.
The proposals that Japan has made to China, as far they are known or credibly surmised, contain nothing to which China has any right to seriously object. China is naturally anxious that Japan shall secure nothing in Manchuria the concession of which will - seriously impair the sovereign rights of China. But it must be remembered that while Japan was. fighting primarily in the recent war for her own existence, she was also fighting to relieve China of the Russian incubus,.which China was not strong enough to. throw off herself, and to force Russia to keep her repeated promises: to evacuate Manchuria, She has succeeded in forcing Russia to evacuate Corea and Manchuria; but Russia is going to maintain a large number of troops on her side of the Amur, and it would be folly "on the part of Japan,: to, hand Manchuria back at. once to China, To hand' Manchuria back. to China: before China is strong enough to defend it herself, with the unceasing disposition to intrigue which -characterises the Russian Leyation at Peking, would be suicidal, H. E,. Yuan Shih-kai: is too well-informed: to imagine that his forty or sixty' thousand—foreign-modelled troops could hold the frontier of Manchuria if the Russians' found some pretext to violate it: Considering the expense of men and money the Japanese have incurred. to shift the. Russians from' Manchuria, they would have been justified in holding it. themselves' until China was strong enough" to do it herself, and in evacuating it within eighteen months they run a serious risk, considering how weak and unstable the Peking Government is.. In this position of things the Japanese pro-pasiis, a sketch of which was given in our issue of the 24th ult., are*remarkably moderate. The demands include China's recognition of the transfer to Japan of the lease of the Liaotung
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