London, Jan. 23.
According to Article 131 of the Peace Treaty, Germany is ordered to surrender certain valuable observation astronomical _instruments which she removed from Peking after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, Not only is she to restore them to their rightful owners but she is to defray all expenses incurred in- removing the instruments from Potsdam, transferring them to Peking and setting them up in the Observatory there. This is an exceedingly interesting bit of history and from 1900 right up to the present day the fate of these instruments has been much dis: cussed in China, Germany, France, America and England.
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