Peking, Feb. 10.
The opinion prevails in Japanese quarters here that a peaceful settlement of the demands of Japan will be reached at the end of this month or at the latest in the middle of March. Japan wants China first) to agree in principle to the -demands and to discuss each demand afterwards. Japan had never asked China to accept all the demands en bloc. An influential party in Japan did demand that General Terauchi and Mr. Ijuin, late Jo anese Minister to Peking, be sent to Peking as special Delegates, but the Japanese Government was apparently not willing to comply with this proposal.
Six gun carriages drawn by mules and guarded by Japanese soldiers were brought into the Legation quarter on the 9th instant. The drivers were apparently Chinese peasants who came from 8 place eighteen li distant from Peking.
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